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| − | I originally intended to base the seminar on Caxton's edition as offered by EEBO | + | I originally intended to base the seminar on Caxton's fist edition published in 1485 as offered by EEBO: |
| − | + | * [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=22102180&FILE=../session/1183624385_29976&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=ALPHA Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (London: William Caxton, 1485)] | |
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| + | A modernised-spelling version of that text is offered as a Penguin classic: | ||
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| + | *** Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte d'Arthur''. Ed. Cowen, Janet (1970). Introduction by Lawlor, John. 2 vols. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-679-60099-X, ISBN 0-14-043044-X. | ||
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| + | The original spelling Caxton text is offered on the internet in the University of Michigan's "Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse": | ||
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| + | * [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=MaloryWks2 Presentation with links into the individual chapters] | ||
| + | * [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;cc=cme;rgn=main;view=text;idno=MaloryWks2 Full Text Download] | ||
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| + | The best alternative is the Winchester Manuscript as published in the critical Norton edition. The problem is here the wild layout (an attempt to reproduce graphical aspects of the original handwritten text) and the fact that the manuscript remained unknown till its rediscovery in 1934 - I prefer to work with a text readers could actually read. | ||
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| + | My recommendation is the Penguin-edition for easy reading or, better though regrettably neither anotated nor available as a book) the University of Michigan's html-Web-edition. | ||
Revision as of 11:16, 5 July 2007
Texts
I originally intended to base the seminar on Caxton's fist edition published in 1485 as offered by EEBO:
A modernised-spelling version of that text is offered as a Penguin classic:
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur. Ed. Cowen, Janet (1970). Introduction by Lawlor, John. 2 vols. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-679-60099-X, ISBN 0-14-043044-X.
The original spelling Caxton text is offered on the internet in the University of Michigan's "Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse":
The best alternative is the Winchester Manuscript as published in the critical Norton edition. The problem is here the wild layout (an attempt to reproduce graphical aspects of the original handwritten text) and the fact that the manuscript remained unknown till its rediscovery in 1934 - I prefer to work with a text readers could actually read.
My recommendation is the Penguin-edition for easy reading or, better though regrettably neither anotated nor available as a book) the University of Michigan's html-Web-edition.
