John Lydgate's Fall of Princes - Mortimer, Nigel (Assistant Head and Head of English, Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh)

"The Fall of Princes", a collection of nearly 500 tragic narratives, is the masterwork of John Lydgate, an admired English poet of the fifteenth century. This book examines Lydgate's manipulations of his source materials, the poet's relationship to his political context, and his importance in the evolution of tragic writing in England.