'Dysemol Daies and Fatal Houres' : Lydgate's 'Destruction of Thebes' and Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
'Dysemol Daies and Fatal Houres' : Lydgate's 'Destruction of Thebes' and Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 15-33.
- Description
- Reads Lydgate's "Destruction" as a Canterbury tale and a "pre-text" to KnT. Set historically before KnT, Lydgate's poem expands the boundaries of Chaucer's poem but "forecloses" its "limited possibilities for constructive human activity."
- Alternative Title
- The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Knight and His Tale.