Images of Kingship in Chaucer and His Ricardian Contemporaries
- Author / Editor
- Rayner, Samantha.
Images of Kingship in Chaucer and His Ricardian Contemporaries
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008.
- Physical Description
- 177 pp.
- Series
- Chaucer Studies, no. 39.
- Description
- Examines depictions of kingship among the Ricardian poets--Gower, Langland, the Gawain poet, and Chaucer--as reflections of common concerns in a time of turbulence, considering royalty in several of Chaucer's works. In BD, the royal birds are refracted versions of royalty, but still quite human in their common experiences.
- TC reveals much about poetic representation by what it does not say, while direct counsel opposes royal tyranny in LGW. In CT, Chaucer reacts to worldly turbulence by turning from support of the monarchy and asserting the importance of the individual as an English citizen and a subject of sovereign God. Comments on KnT and NPT in particular.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Legend of Good Women
- Knight and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale