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The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne
Date: Late 14th century or early 15th century
Author: Thought to be composed in Cumberland
Manuscripts: Survives in four different manuscripts:
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 324.
Lambeth Palace Library, MS 491.B.
Thornton MS, Lincoln Cathedral Library, MS 91.
Ireland Blackburn MS, Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton, New Jersey.
Editions:
Biography:
Editions (arranged chronologically)
Madden, Frederic. 1839. See Bibliography of Editions and Works Cited.
Robson, John. 1842. See Bibliography of Editions and Works Cited.
Amours, F. J. 1897. See Bibliography of Editions and Works Cited.
Gates, Robert J., ed. The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne: A Critical Edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969.
Hanna, Ralph, III, ed. The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn: An Edition Based on Bodleian Library MS. Douce 324. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1974.
Phillips, H., ed. The Awntyrs of Arthure. Lancaster Modern Spelling Texts, 1. Lan-caster: Lancaster University Department of English, 1988. [I have not been able to examine a copy of this edition.]
Mills, Maldwyn, ed. Ywain and Gawain, Sir Percyvell of Gales, The Anturs of Arther. Everyman's Library. London: J. M. Dent Ltd.; Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1992. Pp. 161-82.
Shepherd, Stephen H. A., ed. Middle English Romances. New York: Norton, 1995. Pp. 219-42. [I have not been able to examine a copy of this edition.]
Criticism
Allen, Rosamund. "Some Sceptical Observations on the Editing of The Awntyrs off Arthure." In Manuscripts and Texts: Editorial Problems in Later Middle English Literature: Essays from the 1985 Conference at the University of York. Ed. Derek Pearsall. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987. Pp. 5-25.
Eadie, John. "Two Notes on The Awntyrs of Arthure." English Language Notes 21.2 (1983), 3-7.
Fichte, J. O. "The Awyntyrs off Arthure: An Unconscious Change of the Paradigm of Adventure." In The Living Middle Ages: Studies in Mediaeval English Literature and Its Tradition: A Festschrift for Karl Heinz Göller. Ed. Uwe Böker, Manfred Markus, and Rainer Schöwerling. Belser Stuttgart: Mittelbayerische Druckerei- und Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1989. Pp 129-36.
Hanna, Ralph, III. "The Awntyrs off Arthure: An Interpretation." Modern Language Quarterly 31 (1970), 275-97.
---. "À la Recherche du temps bien perdu: The Text of The Awntyrs off Arthure." Text 4 (1988), 189-205.
Klausner, David N. "Exempla and The Awntyrs of Arthure." Medieval Studies 34 (1972), 307-25.
Lowe, Virginia A. P. "Folklore as Unifying Factor in The Awntyrs off Arthure." Folklore Forum 13 (1980), 199-223.
Mathewson, Jeanne T. "Displacement of the Feminine in Golagros and Gawane and The Awntyrs off Arthure." Arthurian Interpretations 1.2 (1987), 23-28.
Spearing, A. C. "The Awntyrs off Arthure." In The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century. Ed. Bernard S. Levy and Paul E. Szarmach. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1981. Pp. 183-202.
---. "Central and Displaced Sovereignty in Three Medieval Poems." Review of English Studies 33 (1982), 247-61, esp. 248-52.
---. Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. 121-42.