A Distinction of Poetic Form: What Happened to Rhyme Royal in Scotland?
- Author / Editor
- Goldstein, R. James.
A Distinction of Poetic Form: What Happened to Rhyme Royal in Scotland?
- Published
- Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell, eds. The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300-1600 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 161-80
- Description
- Employs both stylistic and codicological analysis to consider Chaucer's inheritance of the French rhyme royal stanza form and his use of it in TC. Demonstrates how rhyme royal flourished in Scotland, initially in "The Kingis Quair," and later in the compositions of Robert Henryson.
- Alternative Title
- The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300-1600.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations
- Troilus and Criseyde