Le Morte d'Arthur

Le Morte Darthur ( rare Le Morte d' Arthur, medium French for " La mort d' Arthur ", dt Arthur's death) is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of various stories of the French and native Arthurian epic.

Content

Most events of the book play in Britain and France in the second half of the 5th century. In some parts dares to Rome and Babylon sarras in addition and recalls Biblical tales from the Middle East.

Textual history

Malory's own handwriting is not known; known today are two non- congruent texts: The supervised by publisher and printer William Caxton and significantly revised first printed edition - only survives in a single copy, and in 1934 rediscovered Winchester manuscript, Eugène Vinaver 1947 for the first time in a critical edition under the title The Works of Sir Thomas Malory presented. Vinavers title setting points to a significant difference between the two sources: Caxton's output is determined by attempts to provide an overview over the text to divide it into 21 books and these must be divided into a total of 507 single - section and over the course of action in a nearly 30-page detailed table of contents to give chapter by chapter overview.

Both versions of the text are close together at another point: The Winchester Manuscript traces of ink used by Caxton were detected, an indication that Caxton had the issue for a balance in operation. He has used the issue, so far as appears not - text clues lead to the conclusion that a lost manuscript submission Caxton was.

Expenditure

On the Winchester manuscript based editions

  • Facsimile: Malory, Sir Thomas. The Winchester Malory: A Facsimile, initiated by N. R. Ker (London, 1976). ISBN 0-19-722404-0.
  • Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur. (A Norton Critical Edition ), ed. by Stephen H. A. Shepherd ( 2004). New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-97464-2. (Web page with text corrections and further commentary: Stephen H. A. Shepherd: Le Morte Darthur: On-line companion. )
  • _________. The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. edited by Eugène Vinaver, 3rd ed. by P. J. C. Field ( 1990). 3 vols Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-812344-2, ISBN 0-19-812345-0, ISBN 0-19-812346-9.
  • _________. Malory: Complete Works, ed. by Eugène Vinaver (1977). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-281217-3. ( A revised version of Malory: Works, 1971).
  • _________. Malory: Works, ed. by Eugène Vinaver (1971). 2 edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-254163-3.
  • _________. The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, HR Support Package by Eugène Vinaver (1967). 2 ed 3 vols Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-811838-4.
  • _________. Malory: Works, ed. by Eugène Vinaver (1954). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-254163-3. ( Malory's text after Vinavers The Works of Sir Thomas Malory (1947 ), cut in a single band in the text apparatus. )
  • _________. The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, ed. by Eugène Vinaver (1947). 3 vol. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript, ed. Helen Cooper ( 1998). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-282420-1. ( a linguistically revised text. )
  • Malory, Sir Thomas. Malory 's Le Morte D' Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table. transl. and edited by Keith Baines (1983). New York: Bramhall House. ISBN 0-517-02060-2. Re: Signet ( 2001). ISBN 0-451-52816-6.
  • _________. Le Morte D' Arthur. (London Medieval & Renaissance Ser. ) Trans. Robert M. Lumiansky (1982). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-684-17673-4.
  • Steinbeck, John, and Thomas Malory. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and Other Sources. (1976 ) New York: Noonday Press. New edition 1993. ISBN 0-374-52378-9.

The Caxton printing based editions

  • Facsimile: Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d' Arthur, printed by William Caxton, 1485, ed. Paul Needham (1976). London.
  • Malory, Sir Thomas. Caxton 's Malory, ed. by James. Spisak W. (1983). 2 vols Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-03825-8.
  • _________. Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory, ed. by H. Oskar Sommer ( 1889-91 ). 3 vols London: David Nutt. The text version is available without Sommers notes as html output: University of Michigan: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse: Le Morte Darthur.
  • Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d' Arthur. Ed. Matthews, John ( 2000), illustrated by Anna -Marie Ferguson, London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-35367-1. ( The introduction by John Matthews acknowledges the Winchester text but then noted that the issue was based on Pollard version of the Caxton text, and was expanded in eight separate passages after the Winchester manuscript. )
  • _________. Le Morte Darthur, initiated by Helen Moore ( 1996). Herefordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. ISBN 1-85326-463-6. (Based, as far as can be seen on the Pollards Caxton edition of the text.)
  • _________. Le morte d' Arthur, initiated by Elizabeth J. Bryan (1994). New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-679-60099- X. ( Pollard text version)
  • _________. Le Morte d' Arthur, ed. by Janet Cowen (1970), introduced by John Lawlor, 2 vols London: Penguin. ISBN 0-679-60099- X, ISBN 0-14-043044- X.
  • _________. Le Morte d' Arthur. Ed. Rhys, John ( 1906). ( Everyman's Library 45 & 46 ) London: Dent; London: JM Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton. Reissued in paperback 1976: ISBN 0-460-01045- X, ISBN 0-460-01046-8. ( In text, a new edition of the old Dent in 1897 published edition. )
  • _________. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory 's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, ed. by A. W. Pollard (1903 ). 2 vols New York: Macmillan. ( After 1868, published by Macmillan edition revised) available online at: Project Gutenberg: Le Morte Darthur: Volume 1 ( books 1-9) and Le Morte Darthur: Volume 2 ( books 10-21 ). (Plain text. )
  • Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library: Le Morte Darthur: Volume 1 ( books 1-9) and Le Morte Darthur: Volume 2 ( books 10-21 ) ( HTML. )
  • Celtic Twilight: Legends of Camelot: Le Morte d' Arthur ( HTML output with the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley by the Dent edition of 1893-94. )

Expenditure in a German translation

  • Sir Thomas Malory: The stories of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. Transferring Helmut Findeisen on the basis of Lachmann 's translation. Island, Frankfurt am Main, 1974 ( paperback edition: Island island Paperback 3209, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3- 458-34909 -X. ).
  • Sir Thomas Malory: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Translated by Hedwig Lachmann (1913). Anaconda, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8664-7370-6.

References and Notes

  • Literary work
  • Literature ( 15th century )
  • Literature ( English )
  • Arthurian romance
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