Le Morte Darthur
| Book | Le Morte Darthur |
| Editor | Stephen H. A. Shepherd |
| Preface by | Stephen H. A. Shepherd |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Contributing Writer | Catherine Batt, William Caxton, Helen Cooper, P. J. C. Field, Geraldine Heng, Mark Lambert, Terence McCarthy, Carol Meale, Felicity Riddy, Paul Strohm |
| Production Director/Manager | Benjamin Reynolds |
| Typeset by | Binghamton Valley Composition |
| Manufacturing by | Courier Companies, Inc. |
| Copyright Holder (This Edition) | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Book Design by | Antonina Krass |
| Publisher Series | Norton Critical Editions |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | Middle English |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Copyright | 2004 |
| Pages / Font | 954 pages |
| ISBN | 0-393-97464-2 |
| Chapters | Preface Acknowledgments Chronologies ...Arthur Before Malory ...The Wars of the Roses ...Malory: Life Events ...Receptions of Le Morte Darthur to 1934 Reading Malory’s English Editorial Procedure / Reading the Edition Abbreviations Page Numbers in This Edition Corresponding to Vinaver Section Titles LE MORTE DARTHUR or THE HOOLE BOOK OF KYNG ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNYGHTES OF THE ROUNDE TABLE Fro the Maryage of Kynge Uther unto Kyng Arthure that Regned aftir Hym and Ded many Batayles ...How Uther Pendragon Gate the Noble Conqueror Kyng Arthur ...The Tale of Balyn and Balan ...The Weddyng of Kyng Arthur ...Aftir Thes Questis The Noble Tale Betwyxt Kynge Arthure and Lucius the Emperour of Rome A Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot Du Lake The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkeney The Fyrste and the Secunde Boke of Syr Trystrams de Lyones The Noble Tale of the Sankgreal The Tale of Sir Launcelot and Quene Gwenyvere The Deth of Arthur SOURCES AND BACKGROUNDS Sources ...The Prose Merlin ......Merlin’s Conception and Birth ......The Conception of the Round Table ...The Suite de Merlin ......The Dolorous Stroke ......The Lake of Diana; Ninianne Increasingly Ensnares Merlin ...The Alliterative Morte Arthure ......Arthur’s Dream of the Dragon and the Bear ......The End of the Battle of the Prisoner-Escort ......The Death of Gawain; Mordred’s Threnody ...The Chronicle of John Hardyng ......The Coronation of Arthur at Rome ...The Prose Lancelot ......The First Meeting of Lancelot and Guinevere ......Mistaken Identity ......Lancelot Rescues a Maiden ...Perlesvaus ......Lancelot at the Perilous Chapel ...The Prose Tristan ......The Philtre Takes Effect ......Brangain and the Serfs ......Iseut of the White Hands ......The Mortal Lay ...The Queste del Saint Graal ......The Hermit Explains the Temptation of Perceval ......Lancelot’s Genealogy ......The Tree of Life ......Galahad Dies ...The Stanzaic Morte Arthur ......Launcelot in the Queen’s Chambers ......Gawain’s Objection to the Queen’s Execution ......Launcelot Responds to His Besiegers ......Launcelot Hopes for Peace ......Arthur Finds Gawain Already Dead ......Arthur’s Dream of the Wheel of Fortune ......The Death of Arthur ......The Death of Launcelot ......The Death of the Queen; Conclusion ...The Morte le Roi Artu ......The Maid of Escalot ......Lancelot in the Queen’s Chambers ......Gawain’s Objection to the Queen’s Execution ......The Death of Gawain ......Arthur’s Last Dreams ......The Death of Arthur ......The Death of the Queen ......The Death of Lancelot Backgrounds ...Responses to the Times ......The Berkeley Letters .........Isabel, Lady Berkeley, Warns Lord Berkeley of Plans to Seize His Lands .........Lord Berkeley Agrees to Trial by Combat with Viscount Lisle ......The Paston Letters .........Lord Moleyns Seizes Gresham Manor and Other Paston Holdings .........Moleyns’s Men Threaten to Abduct Margaret Paston; Other Threats to Paston Holdings ......Contemporary Accounts of The Wars of the Roses .........The Register of Abbot John Whetamstede ............The Duke of York Claims the Throne and Is Rejected (c. October 10, 1460) .........Gregory’s Chronicle ............On the Battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St. Albans, February 2–17, 1461 .........George Neville: Letter to Francesco Coppini on the Battle of Towton .........Edward IV’s Act of Attainder, December 16, 1461 ......Chivalry in Principle .........Gilbert Hay: The Buke of Knychthede ............Properties of the Noble Order and Office of Knychthede .........How Knyghtis of the Bath Shulde Be Made .........Oath of a Herald ......Tournament and Battle .........Christopher Gravett: Knights at Tournament: The 15th Century .........John Keegan: Agincourt, 25 October 1415 CRITICISM Catherine Batt: Malory and Rape William Caxton: Prologue and Epilogue to the 1485 Edition Helen Cooper: Counter-Romance: Civil Strife and Father-Killing in the Prose Romances P. J. C. Field: The Rhetoric of Dialogue Geraldine Heng: Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory Mark Lambert: Shame and Guilt Terence McCarthy: On Malory’s Style Carol Meale: Manuscripts, Readers, and Patrons in Fifteenth-Century England: Sir Thomas Malory and Arthurian Romance Felicity Riddy: Divisions Paul Strohm: Mellyagant’s Primal Scene Glossary Selected Guide to Proper Names Selected Bibliography |
| Notes | First Edition. Based on the Winchester Manuscript. Recovers paragraphing, marginal annotations, and narrative divisions from the manuscript. Preserves rubrication of proper names from the Winchester Manuscript by using black-letter font. |
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