John Lydgate is known as the most distinguished poet of fifteenth-century England. This volume presents his brilliant and underappreciated dramatic texts written for both private and public entertainment, encompassing both religious and secular topics. This is the first time since 1934 that many of these poems have been reprinted or reedited. They are published here with an extensive gloss and notes, as well as a glossary and an introduction, making them accessible to a new generation of students of the Middle Ages. These works are indispensible to any study of medieval English drama.
- ISBN10 1580441483
- ISBN13 9781580441483
- Publish Date 1 March 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Medieval Institute Publications
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English