Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: The Definitive Original Text Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843844605 ISBN 13: 9781843844600

Publisher: D.S. Brewer, 2019

Synopsis

Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2014, the two-volume scholarly edition of the Morte Darthur examined the two surviving versions of the text: Caxton's edition of 1485 and the Winchester manuscript, known to have existed around 1480 but lost until 1934. All major modern scholarly editions have favoured one of these to the point of preserving corrigible error. This paperback includes the definitive original spelling text edition of Malory's classic text which has been described as a "major event in the long history of Malory scholarship". Anyone wishing to have this text along with the full critical apparatus assembled by Professor Field is referred to the two-volume hardcover edition, which remains in print.

P.J.C. Field is Professor of English at Bangor University.

About this title

About the Author:

P.J.C. Field is Professor of English at Bangor University.

Review:

This is a wonderful edition, the product of a lifetime's work, and presented with great clarity and precision. Field's editorial decisions are intelligent and convincing, and he has in any case supplied readers with all the material required should they wish to differ. --Speculum

Will become our standard critical edition of Malory. --Fabula

(A) magisterial critical edition. . There is no doubt that this edition of Le Morte Darthur will now become the standard and indispensable one for the foreseeable years of the twenty-first century. It stands as testimony to the near-lifetime scholarly commitment of Peter Field. --Review of English Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: D.S. Brewer
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1843844605
• ISBN 13: 9781843844600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1114
• Editor: Field P.J.C., Field Peter J C