The Ballad and the Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Green, Richard Firth.

Title
The Ballad and the Middle Ages

Published
Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 163-84.

Description
Surveys ballad scholarship and argues that exploration of medieval ballads has value for broader study, suggesting, for example, that "King Henry" provides useful contexts for the gentility speech in WBT.

Alternative Title
The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.