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Authors: Thomas Malory
ISBN-13: 9781420932812, ISBN-10: 1420932810
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Digireads.com
Date Published: January 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Thomas Malory

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.

Book Synopsis

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