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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

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Author Biography: Thomas Malory

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.

Book Synopsis

The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes.

Table of Contents

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 Table1
Sources and Backgrounds699
Responses to the Times759
Criticism795
Malory and Rape797
Prologue and Epilogue to the 1485 Edition814
Counter-Romance: Civil Strife and Father-Killing in the Prose Romances819
The Rhetoric of Dialogue830
Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory835
Shame and Guilt849
On Malory's Style856
Manuscripts, Readers, and Patrons in Fifteenth-Century England: Sir Thomas Malory and Arthurian Romance865
Divisions882
Mellyagant's Primal Scene894
Glossary907
Selected Guide to Proper Names939
Selected Bibliography945

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