Lydgate's Canterbury Tales: 'The Siege of Thebes' and Fifteenth-Century Chaucerianism
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C.
Lydgate's Canterbury Tales: 'The Siege of Thebes' and Fifteenth-Century Chaucerianism
- Published
- Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 333-64.
- Description
- The truncated nature of CT challenged Chaucer's followers. Casting Chaucer in the role of Laius, Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes," in imitation of Chaucer, was designed as the first tale of the homeward journey as counterpart to KnT, in high style though clumsy and overtly moral.
- Alternative Title
- Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.