The Siege of Thebes

Sinopsis del libro

John Lydgate, Benedictine monk and prolific author of Middle English poetry, finished writing The Siege of Thebes in the early 1420s. An apocryphal Canterbury Tale, The Siege is Lydgate's counterpart to Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and remains the only extant Middle English retelling of the struggle between Oedipus's…