'The Fall of Princes' is a collection of nearly 500 tragic narratives, and is the masterwork of John Lydgate, the 15th century English poet. Mortimer here exami... » 

'The Fall of Princes' is a collection of nearly 500 tragic narratives, and is the masterwork of John Lydgate, the 15th century English poet. Mortimer here examines in detail 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. «