The Long Fifteenth Century Essays for Douglas Gray

by Cooper, Helen; Mapstone, Sally

• ISBN13: 9780198183655
• ISBN10: 0198183658
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-06-12
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This book is a collection of essays written in honor of Professor Douglas Gray, editor of the groundbreaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose . The essays provide a comprehensive survey of fifteenth-century literature, stressing its importance, interest, and richness.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix	(1)
Abbreviations	x
Introduction	1	(14)
Helen Cooper
1. `Dysemol daies and fatal houres': Lydgate's Destruction of Thebes and Chaucer's Knight's Tale	15	(20)
James Simpson
2. Hoccleve and the Middle French Poets	35	(16)
John Burrow
3. Kingship and the Kingis Quair	51	(20)
Sally Mapstone
4. Frames and Narrators in Chaucerian Poetry	71	(28)
Helen Phillips
5. The Verse Forms of Jon the Blynde Awdelay	99	(24)
Eric Stanley
6. Poetic Originality in The Wars of Alexander	123	(18)
Peter Dronke
7. Counter-Romance: Civil Strife and Father-Killing in the Prose Romances	141	(22)
Helen Cooper
8. The Ballad and the Middle Ages	163	(22)
Richard Firth Green
9. `Send thine heart into purgatory': Visionaries of the Other World	185	(20)
Robert Easting
10. Fleshly Monks and Dancing Girls: Immorality in the Morality Drama	205	(24)
Malcolm Godden
11. `Abject odious': Feminine and Masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid	229	(20)
Felicity Riddy
12. `Spekyng for one's sustenance': The Rhetoric of Counsel in Mum and the Sothsegger, Skelton's Bowge of Court, and Elyot's Pasquil the Playne	249	(24)
Helen Barr
Kate Ward-Perkins
13. Justification by Faith: Skelton's Replycacion	273	(40)
Vincent Gillespie
14. Visio Baleii: An Early Literary Historian	313	(18)
Anne Hudson
A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Douglas Gray	331	(6)
Joerg O. Fichte
Select Bibliography	337	(16)
Index	353