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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 Lydgates counterpart to Chaucers The Knights Tale and remains the only extant Middle English retelling of the struggle between Oedipuss sons Across its four parts The Siege unfolds the aftermath of a paternal curse and the conflict between two brothers Eteocles and Polynices ...Seguir leyendo