Fifteenth-Century Complaints and Duke Humphrey's Wives
- Author / Editor
- Davenport, Tony.
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.