Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions

An Anthology
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-926398-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

This anthology provides new editions of five 15th-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers.

This anthology provides new editions of five 15th-century English poems framed as dreams and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Lydgate's "Temple of Glass", a complex love vision, gen

Abbreviations; Editorial Policy; Introduction; THE TEXTS; John Lydgate, The Temple of Glass; James I of Scotland, The Kingis Quair; Charles of Orleans, Love's Renewal; The Assembly of Ladies; John Skelton, The Bowge of Court; Bibliography

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boffey, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Boffey is Reader in Medieval Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is an established editor of medieval texts, and her publications include:

Ed. Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages (D. S. Brewer 1985)
Ed. with J. Cowen Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry (Kings College London 1991)
Ed. with P. King London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages (Westfield College London 1995)
Ed. with J. Scatterford Texts and Contexts: Essays from the Early Book Society (Four Courts Press 1997)
Ed. with A. S. G. Edwards The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'the Kingis Quair' (D. S. Bewer 1997)