Fifteenth-Century Complaints and Duke Humphrey's Wives

Author / Editor
Davenport, Tony.

Title
Fifteenth-Century Complaints and Duke Humphrey's Wives

Published
Helen Cooney, ed. Nation, Court and Culture: New Essays on Fifteenth-Century English Poetry (Dublin and Portland, Ore.: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 129-51.

Description
Examines two mid-fifteenth-century complaints that reflect public distrust of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, arguing that these complaints are more Lydgatian than Chaucerian, since Chaucer's own complaints had little influence at the time. An appendix includes the two poems.

Contributor
Cooney, Helen, ed.

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

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.