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  • A New Companion to Malory

    by Megan G. Leitch, Lisa G. Robeson, Masako Takagi, Meg Roland, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Robert Gossedge, Sian Echard, Thomas Howard Crofts, Cory Rushton1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Andrew Lynch3, Catherine Nall4, Daniel Glynn Helbert5, Dorsey Armstrong6, Kevin S Whetter7 ...
    Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    by Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

    Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, Ad Putter ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context)

    by Peter Brown ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Medieval Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elaine Treharne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

    Edited by Larry Scanlon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • King Arthur: Hero and Legend

    by Richard Barber ...
    The whole subject is brought up to date - Arthurian buffs will want this book. DAILY TELEGRAPHWho was the real Arthur? Why were his knights so famous? Was he buried at Glastonbury? Richard Barber takes the story from the anonymous 8th century chronicler who first listed his battles to the novelists of the 20th century. A clear and readable account of the development of the stories about Arthur and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • King Arthur

    A Casebook

    Edited by Edward Donald Kennedy ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Middle English Literature

    by Christopher Cannon ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • A Companion to Arthurian Literature

    Edited by Helen Fulton ...
    Series Book 177 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and explores why it is still integral to ... Read more

    $46.00 USD