Although Robert Henryson was the major poet of late-fifteenth-century Scotland, his life is even more difficult to construct than the texts of his poems, which must rest on prints or manuscripts made over seventy years after his death. Only one certain...

This is a short study of the themes and structure of Henryson's Fables, notionally focused on the guiding role of the Narrator, but at its best when it looks beyond that concern. Greentree strongly affirms as authorial the order of the Fables in...

ABSTRACT Translation occurs not only between languages, but also between states and species. Animal fables are sites of this kind of translation as they amalgamate human and animal worlds, shifting their characters between animal and human identities in ways designed to make...

In the following essay, Wheatley examines scholastic commentaries on fable collections available to Henryson that may have been influential in his composition of the Morall Fabillis.

In the following essay, Gray provides a comprehensive overview of Henryson's numerous shorter poems.

In the essay below, Henderson examines the Henryson's equally fresh and inventive animal fable plots and their attendant moralization.