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...
Robert Henryson (or Robert Henderson) (c. 1425 – c. 1500) was a Scottish poet. Robert Henryson is thought to have been a member of the Clan Henderson of Fordell, although there is no clear evidence of his connection to the branch of the family in...
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 the...
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 the...
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.
