Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare
- Author / Editor
- Powell, Jason E. and William T. Rossiter, eds
Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare
- Published
- Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013. ix, 256 pp.
- Physical Description
- ix, 256 pp.
- Description
- "Examines the duality of the roles of author and ambassador through a study of the connection between the discourses and practices of authority and diplomacy in the literature of the late medieval and early modern periods." Essays "argue that concepts of diplomacy and of the diplomatic are central in English literature and culture of the period under review." Chaucer is mentioned only occasionally.
- Contributor
- Rossiter, William T., ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism