Robert Henryson
Autor von The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
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Scottish poet Robert Henryson lived in the 15th century. Little is known about his life, but his poetry suggests that he may have been a lawyer and teacher, perhaps teaching at the Benedictine Abbey at Dunfermline. Henryson's greatest works are The Testament of Cresseid, a sequel to Chaucer's mehr anzeigen Troilus and Criseyde, and The Morall Fabills of Esope the Phyrgian, a collection of works based on Aesop's fables. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Robert Henryson as portrayed in the Abbot House, Dunfermline [source: Kim Traynor via Wikipedia]
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Henryson, Robert
- Andere Namen
- Henrysoun, Robert
- Geburtstag
- 1425 (circa)
- Todestag
- 1500 (circa)
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Wohnorte
- Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
- Berufe
- poet
rhetorician - Kurzbiographie
- "There is no record of when or where Henryson was born or educated. The earliest found unconfirmed reference to him occurs on 10 September 1462, when a man of his name with license to teach is on record as having taken a post in the recently founded University of Glasgow. If this was the poet, as is usually assumed, then the citation indicates that he had completed studies in both arts and canon law." (Wikipedia). Other works give his assumed date of birth as c.1425.
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Robert Henryson The Complete Works (Middle English… von Robert Henryson
Henryson is one of the "Scottish Chaucerians" of the fifteenth century, best known for his version of Aesop's fables (including a delightful version of the country mouse and the city mouse) and the Testament of Cressid --an alternative ending for Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, in which Cressida is stricken with leprosy for her infidelity to Troilus, and he seeing the leper is faintly reminded of Cressid and gives her alms, and she dies. Rather emotionally satisfying for those who pity Troilus in the original version, though perhaps anti-feminist. This book also includes a number of shorter works divided into those with stronger and weaker attributions --their presence makes this more complete than most other versions of Henryson available.… (mehr)
Reprint. Orig. publ. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1901
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