Literary Culture at the Court of Richard II

Author / Editor
Scattergood, V. J.

Title
Literary Culture at the Court of Richard II

Published
V. J. Scattergood and J. W. Sherborne, eds. English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages (London: Duckworth, 1983), pp. 29-43.

Description
Argues that Chaucer and Gower were "hardly essential reading " at the court of Richard II, although some evidence indicates that they were being read. Such evidence includes comments on Sted, TC, LGW, Scog, and works by Gower.

Alternative Title
English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Lak of Stedfastnesse
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Envoy to Scogan