Images of Kingship in Chaucer and his Ricardian Contemporaries

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 agains