Morte Arthur (version en strophes)

Titre:	Stanzaic Morte Arthur; Version en strophes
Date:	Vers 1350
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	Huitains de vers octosyllabiques rimant abababab
Contenu:	Adaptation anglaise du roman anonyme en prose La mort le roi Artu.
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Explicit:

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Harley MS 2252, f. 86r-133v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Le Morte Arthur. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot du Lake, edited by Thomas Ponton, London, Bulmer for the Roxburghe Club, 1819. [GB] [IA]
Le Morte Arthur. Edited from the Harleian MS. 2252 in the British Museum by F. J. Furnivall. With a prefatory essay on Arthur by the late Herbert Coleridge, London et Cambridge, MacMillan, 1864, lvi + 191 p. [GB] [IA]
Le Morte Arthur, a romance in stanzas of eight lines, re-edited from MS. Harley 2252, in the British Museum, with introduction, notes, glossary and index of names by J. Douglas Bruce, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 88), 1903, xxx + 148 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- Millwood, Kraus, 1973
Le Morte Arthur, a Middle English metrical romance edited by Samuel B. Hemingway, Boston, New York et Chicago, Houghton Mifflin; Cambridge, Riverside Press (The Riverside Literature Series), 1912, ix + 166 p. [GB] [IA]
Le Morte Arthur: a critical edition by P. F. Hissiger, The Hague et Paris, Mouton (Studies in English Literature, 96), 1975, 184 p.
Medieval English Romances, edited by A. V. C. Schmidt and Nicolas Jacobs, New York, Holmes and Meier, 1980, t. 2, p. 135-184.
King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure, edited by Larry D. Benson, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill (The Library of Literature, 29), 1974, 257 p. — 2nd ed., Exeter, University of Exeter Press (Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies), 1986, xxxvi + 257 p. — Réimpr.: 1995.
Le Morte Arthur (British library MS Harley 2252), edited by Shunichi Noguchi, Tokyo, Centre for Mediaeval English Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo (Medieval English Text Series, 1), 1990, 10 + 83 f.
King Arthur's Death: The Middle English "Stanzaic Morte Arthur" and "Alliterative Morte Arthure", edited by Larry D. Benson; revised by Edward E. Foster, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University (Middle English Texts), 1994, xii + 292 p. [IA] [metseditions.org]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England. A new edition, revised by J. O. Halliwell, London, Bohn (Bohn's Antiquarian Library), 1848, viii + 600 p. (ici p. 143-187) [GB] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh, Constable, 1805, 3 t., vii + 387, [iv] + 404, [iv] + 419 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 3 t., vii + 408, [iv] + 419, [iv] + 432 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
en français:
- Les Mort d'Arthur moyen-anglaises en vers, éd. Colette Stévanovitch et Anne Mathieu, Turnhout, Brepols (Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Âge, 17), 2017, 567 p. ISBN: 9782503569291
  Compte rendu:
  Marie-Françoise Alamichel, dans Le Moyen Âge, 124:1, 2018, p. 145-147. DOI: 10.3917/rma.241.0145

Études

Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Bruce, J. Douglas, « The Middle English metrical romance Le Morte Arthur (Harleian MS. 2252): its sources and its relation to Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur », Anglia, 23, 1901, p. 67-100. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
Bruce, J. Douglas, « A reply to Dr. Sommer concerning the relations of Malory's Morte D'Arthur and the Middle English romance, Le Morte Arthur, preserved in the Harleian MS. 2252 », Anglia, 30, 1907, p. 209-216. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Bruce, J. Douglas, « The development of the Mort Arthur theme in mediaeval romance », The Romanic Review, 4, 1913, p. 403-471. [Gallica] [GB] [HT] [IA]
Donaldson, E. Talbot, « Malory and the stanzaic Le Morte Arthur », Studies in Philology, 47:3, 1950, p. 460-472. [jstor.org]
Kennedy, Edward Donald, « Malory, the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Chauce », Arthuriana, 28:3, 2018, p. 51-65. DOI: 10.1353/art.2018.0025
Mehl, Dieter, Die mittelenglischen Romanzen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, 93), 1967, 229 p. [IA]
Traduction:
- Mehl, Dieter, The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, 300 p. [IA]
Nicholson, Roger, « Translating treason: shameful death in French and English romances of Arthur's last days », Medieval Romances Across European Borders, éd. Miriam Edlich-Muth, Turnhout, Brepols (Medieval Narratives in Transmission, 1), 2018, p. 155-176.
Sommer, H. Oskar, « On Dr. Douglas Bruce's article: "The Middle English romance Le Morte Arthur, Harl. MS. 2252." etc. », Anglia, 29, 1906, p. 529-538. [GB: ex. 1, ex. 2] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Whetter, K. S., Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance, Aldershot et Burlington, Ashgate, 2008, xii + 205 p. [IA]
Compte rendu:
Yin Liu, dans The Medieval Review, 09.11.11. [www]
Wilson, Robert H., « Malory, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and the Mort Artu », Modern Philology, 37:2, 1939-1940, p. 125-138. [jstor.org]

Version anglaise de La mort le roi Artu

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