"With face pale": Melancholy Violence in John Lydgate's Troy and Thebes.

Author / Editor
Lynch, Andrew.

Title
"With face pale": Melancholy Violence in John Lydgate's Troy and Thebes.

Published
Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater eds. Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater eds. Representing War and Violence 1250-1600 (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2016), pp. 79-94.

Description
Assesses John Lydgate as "the premier learned war poet of the later English Middle Ages," exploring his "Troy Book" and "Seige of Thebes" for the ways they depict the violence of war. Includes recurrent attention to Lydgate's sources, Chaucer's TC, Anel, and KnT among them.

Contributor
Bellis, Joanna, ed.
Slater, Laura, ed.

Alternative Title
Representing War and Violence 1250-1600.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde
Anelida and Arcite
Knight and His Tale