Le Morte Darthur亚瑟王之死

According to tradition, a rogue knight of the fifteenth century collated all the legends and songs surrounding the pre-Christian Welsh chieftain Arthur into a fascinating, rambling prose narrative. Since then it has inspired numerous artists while becoming the principal source for today's notions of chivalry and the Knights of the Round Table. Yet, for modern Americans, it's as difficult to hear as to read, despite all efforts by the brilliant Derek Jacobi in this judicious abridgment. The diction, somewhere between the English of Chaucer and Shakespeare, has been tastefully edited for comprehension, but the values and literary conventions have not. If anyone can bring such fare to life, Jacobi can--and does! Through him, we hear what once inspired the fantasies of young boys. All the psychological and moral complexities that are the author's chief concern are present, as well as the vigor and sonority of the writing. Further, Jacobi's beautiful oral expression smooths out the unevenness of the original and gives more life to the characters than Malory did. Jacobi brings out the full tragedy of Arthur's death and the dissolution of the Camelot ideal. Malory as interpreted by Jacobi is well worth the listen. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine—This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

STEPHEN H.A.SHEPHERD is Associate Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. His honors include fellowships to the Huntingto Ligrary and the Bibliographical Society of America. He is the editor of the Early english Text Society edition of the Middle English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicale and of the Norton Critical Edition of Middle English Rouarces.

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The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes. No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses—Caxton's 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally agreed to be the more authentic of the two surviving manuscripts. The Norton Critical Edition is the first edition of Malory to recover important elements of this manuscript: paragraphing, marginal annotations, hierarchies of narrative division as signaled by size and decorative intricacy of initial capitals and font changes. The Norton Critical Edition also represents, in black-letter font, the striking rubrication of proper names in the Winchester Manuscript, reconstructing for readers something of an authentic medieval reading experience, one which gives visual support to Malory's extraordinary representation, in character and setting, of a chivalric ideal. No other student edition of Malory contains such extensive contextual and critical support.

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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
Page Numbers in This Edition Corresponding to Vinaver (03) Section Titles
Le Morte Darthur or The Hoole Book of
Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of
the Rounde Table
　FRO THE MARYAGE OF KYNGE UTHER UNTO KYNG ARTHURE
　　THAT REGNED AFTIR HYM AND DED MANY BATAYLES
　How Uther Pendragon Gate the Noble Conqueror Kyng Arthur
The Tale of Balyn and Balan
The Weddyng of Kyng Arthur
Aftir Thes Questis
　THE NOBLE TALE BETWYXT KYNGE ARTHURE AND LUCIUS THE
　　EMPEROUR OF ROME
A NOBLE TALE OF SIR LAUNCELOT DU LAKE
THE TALE OF SIR GARETIt OF ORKENEY
THE FYRSTE AND THE SECUNDE BOKE OF
　　SYR TRYSTRAMS DE LYONES
THE NOBLE TALE OF THE SANKGREAL
THE TALE OF SIR LAUNCELOT AND QUENE GWE~ERE
THE DETH OF ARTHUR
Sources and Backgrounds
　Sources
　The Prose Merlin
　Merhn s Conception and Birth
　The Conception of the Round Table
　　The Suite de Merlin
　 The Dolorous Stroke
　The Lake of Diana; Ninianne Increasingly Ensnares Merlin
　　The Alliterative Morte Arthure
　　 Arthur's Dream of the Dragon and the Bear
　　 The End of the Battle of the Prisoner-Escort
　　 The Death of Gawain; Mordred's Threnody
　　The Chronicle of John Hardyng
　　 The Coronation of Arthur at Rome
　　The Prose Lancelot
　　 The First Meeting of Lancelot and Guinevere
　　 Mistaken Identity
　　　Lancelot Rescues a Maiden
　　Perlesvaus
　　 Lancelot at the Perilous Chapel
　　The Prose Tristan
　　 The Philtre Takes Effect
　　 Brangain and the Serfs
　　　lseut of the White Hands
　　 The Mortal Lay
　　The Queste del Saint Graal
　　 The Hermit Explains the Temptation of Perceval
　　 Lancelot's Genealogy
　　 The Tree of Life
　　 Galahad Dies
　　The Stanzaic Morte Arthur
　　 Launcelot in the Queen's Chambers
　　 Gawain's Objection to the Queen's Execution
　　 Launcelot Responds to His Besiegers
　　 Launcelot Hopes for Peace
　　 Arthur Finds Gawain Already Dead
　　 Arthur's Dream of the Wheel of Fortune
　　 The Death of Arthur
　 　The Death of Launcelot
　　The Death of the Queen; Conclusion
　　The Morte le Roi Artu
　　 The Maid of Escalot
　　 Lancelot in the Queen's Chambers
　　 Gawain's Objection to the Queen's Execution
　 　The Death of Gawain
　　 Arthur's Last Dreams
　　 The Death of Arthur
　　 The Death of the Queen
　　 The Death of Lancelot
　Backgrounds
　　Responses to the Times
　　　THE BERKELEY LETI~ERS
　　 Isabel, Lady Berkeley, Warns Lord Berkeley of
Plans to Seize His Lands
　……
Criticism
Glossary
Selected Guide to Proper Names
Selected Bibliography