Jack Philipot, John of Gaunt, and a Poem of 1380

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
Jack Philipot, John of Gaunt, and a Poem of 1380

Published
Speculum 66 (1991): 330-41.

Description
Dates the macaronic lyric "On the Times" ("Syng y wold, butt, alas!") at 1380, reading it as a commentary on events and attitudes leading to the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.