A Distinction of Poetic Form: What Happened to Rhyme Royal in Scotland?

Author / Editor
Goldstein, R. James.

Title
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