Authors: Thomas Malory, Stephen H. Shepherd, Stephen H. Shepherd (Editor), Stephen H A Shepherd
ISBN-13: 9780393974645, ISBN-10: 0393974642
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Stephen H. A. Shepherd is Associate Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. His honors include fellowships to the Huntington Library and the Bibliographical Society of America. He is the editor of the Middle-English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle and of the Norton Critical Edition of Middle English Romances and coeditor of the Norton Critical Edition of Piers Plowman.
The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.
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 | ||
Le Morte Darthur or The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table | 1 | |
Sources and Backgrounds | 699 | |
Responses to the Times | 759 | |
Criticism | 795 | |
Malory and Rape | 797 | |
Prologue and Epilogue to the 1485 Edition | 814 | |
Counter-Romance: Civil Strife and Father-Killing in the Prose Romances | 819 | |
The Rhetoric of Dialogue | 830 | |
Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory | 835 | |
Shame and Guilt | 849 | |
On Malory's Style | 856 | |
Manuscripts, Readers, and Patrons in Fifteenth-Century England: Sir Thomas Malory and Arthurian Romance | 865 | |
Divisions | 882 | |
Mellyagant's Primal Scene | 894 | |
Glossary | 907 | |
Selected Guide to Proper Names | 939 | |
Selected Bibliography | 945 |