The tale of Gamelyn

Titre:	The tale of Gamelyn
Date:	Vers 1350-1370
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	898 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Lithes and listneth and harkeneth aright, and ye shul here of a doughty knyght; sire John of Boundes was his name, he coude of norture and of mochel game…
Explicit:	… they lyved togidere the while that Crist wolde, and sithen was Gamelyn graven under molde. And so shull we alle may ther no man fle: God bring us to that joye that ever shal be!

Manuscrits

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Cambridge, University Library, Ii.3.26
Cambridge, University Library, Mm.2.5
London, British Library, Harley, 1758
London, British Library, Harley, 7334
London, British Library, Lansdowne, 851
London, British Library, Royal, 18 C. II
London, British Library, Sloane, 1685
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole, 45, III, f. ?? [⇛ Description]
Oxford, Corpus Christi College Library, ??
Petworth (West Sussex), Petworth House, Canterbury Tales MS. [www]
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Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited, with prefaces, biographical and critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: and the most approved translations. The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalmers, London, Johnson etc., 1810, 21 t. (ici t. 1, p. 607-623) [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4, t. 5, t. 6, t. 7, t. 8, t. 9, t. 10, t. 11, t. 12, t. 13, t. 14, t. 15, t. 16, t. 17, t. 18, t. 19, t. 20, t. 21]
Réimpressions:
- New York, Greenwood Press, 1969
- Hildesheim et New York, Olms, 1970-1971
The Tale of Gamelyn from the Harleian MS. no. 7334, collated with six other MSS. edited with notes and a glossarial index by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. Second edition, revised, Oxford, Clarendon Press (Clarendon Press Series), 1893, xl + 64 p. [GB] [IA]
Édition antérieure:
- The Tale of Gamelyn from the Harleian MS. no. 7334, collated with six other MSS. edited with notes and a glossarial index by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, Oxford, Clarendon Press (Clarendon Press Series), 1884, xl + 64 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
The Tale of Gamelyn, edited by Walter W. Skeat, New Rochelle, Elston Press, 1901, lxx p. [IA]
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 1, p. 209-235) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]
Middle English Verse Romances, edited by Donald B. Sands, New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966, xiii + 398 p. (ici p. 154-181) [IA]
Réimpressions:
- Exeter, Exeter University Press (Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies), 1986
- 1993
- 1997
Daniel, Neil, The Tale of Gamelyn: A New Edition, Ph. D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1967.
Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, edited by Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren, with contributions by Thomas E. Kelly et al., Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS and the University of Rochester (Middle English Texts), 2003, xv + 723 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Early English Romances in Verse: Done into Modern English by Edith Rickert: Romances of Friendship, London, Chatto and Windus; New York, Duffield, 1908, xxiv + 184 p. (ici p. 85-116) [GB] [IA]
- Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation, edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren, West Lafayette, Parlor Press, 2005, xxxv + 487 p.

Études

Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Blake, N., « Chaucer, Gamelyn and the Cook's Tale », The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya, éd. Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal et John Scahill, Woodbridge et Rochester, Brewer; Tokyo, Yushodo Press, 2004, p. 87-98.
Campbell, Leslie Jean, The Matter of England in Middle English Romance, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1983, v + 155 p. [PQ]
Donnelly, Colleen, « Aristocratic veneer and the substance of verbal bonds in The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell and Gamelyn », Studies in Philology, 94:3, 1997, p. 321-343. [jstor.org]
Field, Rosalind, « The curious history of the matter of England », Boundaries in Medieval Romance, éd. Neil Cartlidge, Cambridge, Brewer (Studies in Medieval Romance, 6), 2008, p. 29-42.
Compte rendu du recueil: Carolyne Larrington, dans The Medieval Review, 08.10.07. * [TMR]
Hoffman, Dean A., « "After Bale Comeþ Boote": narrative symmetry in the Tale of Gamelyn », Studia neophilologica, 60:2, 1988, p. 159-166. DOI: 10.1080/00393278808587996
Jost, Jean E., « Retribution in Gamelyn: a case in the courts », Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses, éd. Albrecht Classen et Connie Scarborough, Berlin, de Gruyter (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 11), 2012, p. 175-188.
Kaeuper, Richard W., « An historian's reading of The Tale of Gamelyn », Medium Ævum, 52:1, 1983, p. 51-62. DOI: 10.2307/43628682
Knight, Stephen, « "herkeneth aright": reading Gamelyn for text not context », Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance, éd. Rosalind Field, Cambridge, Brewer, 1999, p. 15-27. [IA]
Lindner, F., « The tale of Gamelyn », Englische Studien, 2, 1879, p. 94-114 et 321-343. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Menuge, Noël James, « The wardship romance: a new methodology », Tradition and Transformation in Medieval Romance, éd. Rosalind Field, Cambridge, Brewer, 1999, p. 29-43. [IA]
Scattergood, V. J., « The Tale of Gamelyn: the noble robber as provincial hero », Readings in Medieval English Romance, éd. Carol M. Meale, Cambridge, Brewer, 1994, p. 159-194.
Shannon, Edgar F., Jr., « Mediaeval law in The Tale of Gamelyn », Speculum, 26:3, 1951, p. 458-464. DOI: 10.2307/2850865
Swanton, M. J., « "A ram and a ring," Gamelyn 172 ff. », English Language Notes, 20, 1983, p. 8-10.

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