Politique : Languages of Statecraft Between Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul.
Politique : Languages of Statecraft Between Chaucer and Shakespeare
- Published
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- 298 pp.
- Description
- Explores the political discourse of fifteenth-century England, identifying a "pre-Machiavellian moment" in which awareness of political upheaval and the unreliability of Fortune influenced or produced a variety of vernacular texts. Assesses the relations between these texts and their contextual ideologies and events. Includes discussion of MkT and the Knight's interruption of it in relation to Boccaccio's "De casibus virorum illustrium," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," and later works in the tradition of Mirror for Magistrates.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.