'Forto Compleyne She Had Gret Desire' : The Grievances Expressed in Two Fifteenth-Century Dream-Visions

Author / Editor
Boffey, Julia.

Title
'Forto Compleyne She Had Gret Desire' : The Grievances Expressed in Two Fifteenth-Century Dream-Visions

Published
Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 116-28.

Description
Contrasts the parliaments or courts of love in PF and LGWP with those in Lydgate's Temple of Glas and the anonymous Assembly of Ladies. The later poems present "idealizing fantasies of social assimilation or integration."

Alternative Title
Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Parliament of Fowls.
Legend of Good Women.