The Siege of Thebes
The Siege of Thebes

Author: John Lydgate

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2001-03-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 158044427X

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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.

Lydgate's Siege of Thebes, Vol. 1
Lydgate's Siege of Thebes, Vol. 1

Author: John Lydgate

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781528301480

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Excerpt from Lydgate's Siege of Thebes, Vol. 1: The Text From his Old French source Lydgate has taken about two-thirds of his poem. More than a fourth he has drawn from his own creative imagination or from his general store of knowledge. The rest of the poem, about the twentieth part of the whole, comes partly from the Bible, but principally from such authors as Seneca, Martianus de Capella, Boccaccio, Chaucer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.