In this book-length study of Hoccleve's major poem, Regiment of Princes, the author argues that despite the view of Hoccleve's politics and poetics as conventio... » 

In this book-length study of Hoccleve's major poem, Regiment of Princes, the author argues that despite the view of Hoccleve's politics and poetics as conventional, servile and naive, it is in fact deeply engaged in the political and literary currents of the early 15th century. «