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Books on John Lydgate
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John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, And Lancastrian England
by Larry Scanlon (Editor), James Simpson (Editor)
University of Notre Dame Press, 2006
"Essays in this volume argue for a powerful reassessment
of John Lydgate's poetic projects. Contributors write about
Lydgate from a variety of critical perspectives and emphasize
the diversity of the poet's writings beyond the city-state
tragedies of Troy and Thebes. Genres discussed include beast fable,
mumming, hagiography, devotional poetry, and civic pageant.
The essays also reassess crucial themes in the field of Lydgate
studies, including Lydgate's unofficial laureateship, his relations
to his patrons, his syntax, and his relationship to Chaucer."
—The Publisher.
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John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
by Maura Nolan
Cambridge University Press, 2005
"Maura Nolan offers a major re-interpretation of Lydgate's
work and of his central role in the developing literary
culture of his time. Moreover, she provides a wholly new
perspective on Lydgate's relationship to Chaucer, as he
followed Chaucerian traditions while creating innovative
new ways of addressing the public."
—The Publisher.
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John Lydgate's Fall of Princes: Narrative Tragedy
in Its Literary and Political Contexts
by Nigel Mortimer
Oxford University Press, 2005
"This book locates Lydgate's work within its contexts,
exploring the nature of his relationship with the uneasy
Lancastrian dynasty during the minority of Henry VI as
well as his response to contemporary conflicts between
ecclesiastical and secular authority. In particular,
this book closely analyses Lydgate's manipulations of
his French source text, allowing readers to see in detail
for the first time what it is that Lydgate was setting out
to achieve. Finally, the book identifies the readership
of Lydgate's poem in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
discussing its influence on the evolution of narrative
tragedy in English."
—The Publisher.
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