John Lydgate’s The Siege of Thebes, written c. 1421-22, is the only Middle English poetic text that recounts the fratricidal struggle between Oedipus’s sons Eteocles and Polynices as they contend for the lordship of Thebes. The text reflects the problem of poetic authority and the political and ethical themes of Lydgate’s poetic career in the 1420s, when he was writing as a Lancastrian propagandist and as unofficial royal poet.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781580444279 ● Editor John Lydgate ● Publisher Medieval Institute Publications ● Published 2001 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7539041 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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