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| Text name: | The Death of Edward III |
| Alternative names: | A dear God what may this be, That all thing wears; A dere God, what mai þis be; On the Death of Edward III |
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| Genre/subjects: | elegiac political verse, politics, political song, Edward III, death, elegy, complaint, social protest, evils of the time, contemporary conditions, lament, political malaise |
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| Date of original composition: | 1377 The poem laments the political situation in England upon the death of Edward III in 1377. It was therefore likely written that year. The text seems "to have been written very soon indeed after Edward III’s death" (Dobson 1983: 88). |
| Suggested date: | 1377 |
| PCMEP period: | M3 |
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| Index of ME Verse: | 5 (IMEV), 5 (NIMEV) |
| Digital Index of ME Verse: | 30 |
| Wells: | 4.14. and 13.19 |
| MEC HyperBibliography: | Death Edw.III |
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| Word count: | 817 |
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References
Dobson, Richard B. 1983. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. London: MacMillan.