The Ballad and the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Green, Richard Firth.
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.