Richard the Redeless focuses wholly and exclusively on Richard II and the latter part of his reign, whereas Mum ignores Richard's rule to concentrate exclusively on problems during Henry IV's administration... Richard the Redeless contains specific allusions to events and personalities of Richard II's reign, but this is not the case with Mum... to be a truth teller and name names may have proved too much for him.
múm | It Ain't Half Hot Mum | Keeping Mum | Múm | The Illustrated Mum | Mum & Dad | Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum | Mum and the Sothsegger | Kizzy: Mum at 14 | Can Lehmo's Mum guess who the celebrity is? |
Like much political or religious poetry of the Alliterative Revival (i.e., Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger), the poem takes the form of a quest for knowledge.