Description
Book SynopsisJohn 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction
Mummings and Entertainments 1. Bycorne and Chychevache 2. Disguising at Hertford 3. Disguising at London 4. Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London 5. The Legend of St. George 6. Mesure Is Tresour 7. Mumming at Bishopswood 8. Mumming at Eltham 9. Mumming at Windsor 10. Mumming for the Goldsmiths of London 11. Mumming for the Mercers of London 12. Of the Sodein Fal of Princes in Oure Dayes 13. Pageant of Knowledge 14. A Procession of Corpus Christi 15. Soteltes at the Coronation Banquet of Henry VI Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix Mumming of the Seven Philosophers Margaret of Anjou's Entry into London, 1445 Bibliography Glossary
