"With face pale": Melancholy Violence in John Lydgate's Troy and Thebes.
- Author / Editor
- Lynch, Andrew.
"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