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Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger
Engelsk
Bogcover for Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger af , 9781580440684
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
183
ISBN-13:
9781580440684
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1580440681
Udg. Dato:
1 dec 2000
Størrelse i cm:
25,3 x 17,7 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
1 dec 2000

Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger

Engelsk
Paperback 2000
Format:

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This volume brings together two fragmentary Middle English poems, written in the alliterative style of William Langland’s Piers Plowman, that critique the crisis of kingship at the turn of the fourteenth century. Richard the Redeless, a mirror for princes, employs an elaborate beast allegory to describe Richard II’s reign as egregiously lawless, implicitly blaming him for the events of 1399 that ended with his rival, Henry Bolingbroke, usurping his throne. James Dean opines that “no [other] writer … was so critical of Richard.” Mum and the Sothsegger, which translates roughly to Silence (keeping mum) and the Soothsayer (or truth-teller), uses debate poetry to satirize the bureaucratic institutions of Henry IV. The narrator goes on a journey to determine which of the two titular courses of action is best; he discovers that Sothsegger’s pragmatic wisdom wins out over Mum’s spineless sycophancy. Both texts, written in a Midlands dialect, denounce agents of political instability in their hopes for more principled governance.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
183
ISBN-13:
9781580440684
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1580440681
Udg. Dato:
1 dec 2000
Størrelse i cm:
25,3 x 17,7 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
1 dec 2000
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