Politics and London Life

Author / Editor
Turner, Marion.

Title
Politics and London Life

Published
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 13-33.

Description
Divided into three sections - "Politics and Discourse," "London Life and Chaucer's Poetry," and "Chaucer's Social Circle" - this essay surveys a variety of Chaucer's narratives and short poems, showing how they reflect urban and political elements in fourteenth-century London.

Alternative Title
A Concise Companion to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.