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This volume constitutes a search for the identity of Malory, author of the Morte Darthur. Field considers all arguments and gives an account of the life of the man identified, setting him in his historical context.
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Dorsey Armstrong provides a new, Modern English translation of the MORTE DARTHUR that portrays the holistic and comprehensive unity of the text as a whole, as suggested by the structure of Caxton’s print, but that is based primarily on the Winchester Manuscript, which offers the most complete and accurate version of Malory’s narrative. This translation makes one of the most compelling and important texts in the Arthurian tradition easily accessible to everyone—from high school students to Arthurian scholars. In addition to the complete text, Armstrong includes an introduction that discusses Malory’s sources and the long-running debate surrounding the manuscript and print versions of the narrative. For ease of use, the text is keyed to both William Caxton’s print version and the manuscript version edited by Eugène Vinaver. A detailed index is also included.
This work begins with the birth of Arthur and the establishment of his kingdom and the fellowship of knights. It describes courtly society which is outwardly secure and successful, but which is, in reality, torn by dissent and ultimately treachery.
Since the publication of the three-volume edition of "The Works of Sir Thomas Malory" in 1947 more has been written on Malory than during any comparable period in the past, and the time seems opportune for a re-issue in a revised form of the text and the critical apparatus, including the Introduction and the Commentary. Without departing form the method of editing adopted in the first edition the editor has endeavored to produce a more fully reconstructed text which in no fewer than two hundred passages comes closer to Malory's own. The revision has involved a fresh examination of all the material, and due account has been taken of the vast body of recent Malory criticism. -- From publisher's description.