Research Catalog

Title

Le morte Darthur, or, The hoole book of Kyng Arthur and of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table : authoritative text, sources and backgrounds, criticism / Sir Thomas Malory ; edited by Stephen H.A. Shepherd.

Author

Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century.

Publication

New York : Norton, 2004.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

Shepherd, S. H. A.

Description

lii, 954 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

A primary and secondary source to the 15th-century prose saga for students of English literature. The text includes footnotes explaining terms and references, and marginal references to manuscript pages. A glossary, related contemporary documents, and recent critical essays support the text.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Morte d'Arthur

Alternative Title

• Morte d'Arthur
• Hoole book of Kyng Arthur and of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table

Subject

• Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
• Arthurian romances
• Arthurian romances > History and criticism
• Knights and knighthood in literature
• Kings and rulers in literature

Genre/Form

• Arthurian romances
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Epics (texts)
• Cycles d'Arthur.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 945-954).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Malory and rape / Catherine Batt -- Prologue and epilogue to the 1485 edition / William Caxton -- Counter-romance: Civil strife and father-killing in the prose romances / Helen Cooper -- The rhetoric of dialogue / P.J.C. Field -- Enchanted ground: the feminine subtext in Malory / Geraldine Heng -- Shame and guilt / Mark Lambert -- On Malory's style / Terence McCarthy -- Manuscripts, readers, and patrons in fifteenth-century England: Sir Thomas Malory and Arthurian romance / Carol Meale -- Divisions / Felicity Riddy -- Mellyagant's primal scene / Paul Strohm.

ISBN

0393974642 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002026534

OCLC

50143922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library