Le Morte Darthur

A Norton Critical Edition

Thomas Malory, Stephen H. A. Shepherd (Loyola Marymount University)

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W W Norton & Co
08 January 2010

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary essays; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Norton Critical Editions

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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 earlier texts. 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.

By: Thomas Malory
Edited by: Stephen H. A. Shepherd (Loyola Marymount University)
Imprint: W W Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 768g
ISBN: 9780393974645
ISBN 10: 0393974642
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Pages: 752
Publication Date: 08 January 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active