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| + | Those who are planning to join the seminar may contribute thoughts on what they'd like to see done in the following list: | ||
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| + | * Sources in Europe's mythology and history | ||
| + | * The medieval world as we came to know it: Mark Twain's ''Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court'' (1889). | ||
| + | * Movie adaptations | ||
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==Texts== | ==Texts== | ||
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* [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)] | * [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)] | ||
| − | A modernised-spelling version of that | + | A modernised-spelling version of Caxton's edition - and that speaks against it - 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. | * 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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* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;cc=cme;rgn=main;view=text;idno=MaloryWks2 Full Text Download] | * [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;cc=cme;rgn=main;view=text;idno=MaloryWks2 Full Text Download] | ||
| − | 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 | + | 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 favour Caxton's text, as it was actually read - the Winchester manuscript remained unknown till 1934. |
| − | My recommendation is the Penguin-edition for easy reading or, better though regrettably neither | + | My recommendation is the Penguin-edition for easy reading or, better (though regrettably neither annotated nor available as a book) the University of Michigan's html-Web-edition. |
Revision as of 12:20, 5 July 2007
Topics
Those who are planning to join the seminar may contribute thoughts on what they'd like to see done in the following list:
- Sources in Europe's mythology and history
- The medieval world as we came to know it: Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (1889).
- Movie adaptations
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 Caxton's edition - and that speaks against it - 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 favour Caxton's text, as it was actually read - the Winchester manuscript remained unknown till 1934.
My recommendation is the Penguin-edition for easy reading or, better (though regrettably neither annotated nor available as a book) the University of Michigan's html-Web-edition.
