Authors: Thomas Malory, John Rhys
ISBN-13: 9781171762584, ISBN-10: 1171762585
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Nabu Press
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
SIR THOMAS MALORY was a knight and estate owner in the mid 15th century, who spent many years in prison for political crimes as well as robbery. He wrote Le Morte dΓÇÖArthur, the first great English prose epic, while imprisoned in Nwgate. The epic was published in 1485 by William Caxton, the first English printer. Malory is believed to have died in 1471.
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 |