Images of Kingship in Chaucer and His Ricardian Contemporaries

By Samantha J. Rayner

The concept of kingship was a major preoccupation for the Ricardian poets, as this full treatment shows.

The idea of kingship forms a recurrent theme in the poems of the so-called Ricardians, John Gower, William Langland, the Gawain-poet and Chaucer - unsurprisingly, during a period of considerable turmoil. This book aims towiden understanding of these poets through an examination of the theme in Confessio Amantis, Piers Plowman and the works of the Gawain-poet and then setting these against the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, the most well-known and studied of the Ricardians. It brings the other poets' work into sharper focus, showing that despite a diversity in style and approach, common concerns and attitudes underpin all of the poets under consideration.

SAMANTHA RAYNER gained her PhD from Bangor University; she is currently Senior Lecturer in Publishing, University College London.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843841746
• ISBN13: 9781843841746
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"