The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521037389
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: It all starts with a purloined letter: a letter that contained the details of a 1346 political alliance between the French king, Philippe IV, and the duke of Normandy, who vowed together to "destruire &amp; anientier tote la Nation &amp; la Lange Engleys" [destroy and eliminate the entire English nation and language].