The Siege of Thebes/John Lydgate

Author / Editor
Edwards, Robert R., ed.

Title
The Siege of Thebes/John Lydgate

Published
Middle English Texts. Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2001.

Physical Description
x, 190 pp.

Description
A teaching edition of "The Siege of Thebes," with introduction, marginal glosses, textual and explanatory notes, select bibliography, and glossary. The introduction and notes clarify Lydgate's engagement with KnT, the frame of CT, and TC and discuss "Lydgate's ambivalent relation to Chaucer as a master and a rival."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.