The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare.(Book review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Cooper, Helen | Copyright information

The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare. By Deanne Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 283 pp.; 18 illustrations. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-83216-8.

Deanne Williams sets out to chart the representations of, and reactions to, France and the 'idea of Frenchness' in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and his Prioress, the Corpus Christi plays, Caxton, Hawes, Skelton, and Shakespeare, in particular Richard II and King John. The 'fetish' o...

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