Sir Degaré

Titre:	The treatyse of syr Degore (ms. Douce, expl.); Sir Degaré; Sir Degarre; Sir Degoré
Date:	Début du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	Vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Lysteneth, lordinges, gente and fre, ich wille you telle of Sire Degarre: knightes that were sometyme in londe ferli fele wolde fonde…
Explicit:	… and weddyd hur wyth gret solempnité byfor all the lordis in that cuntré. Thus cam the knyght outt of his care; God yff us grace well to fare. Amen The lyff of Syr Degaré both curteys and fre.
Voir aussi:	Richars li Biaus

Manuscrits

Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.38, f. 257v-261v [⇛ Description]
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates, 19.2.1, f. 78v-84v [⇛ Description]
« Auchinleck manuscript ».
London, British Library, Additional, 27879, p. 372-381 [⇛ Description]
London, British Library, Egerton, 2862, f. 97, 95 [⇛ Description]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 261, f. 8r-14v [⇛ Description]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson F. 34, f. 10v-17v

Éditions anciennes

Syr Degore
London, Wynken de Worde, [vers 1512-1513]
ARLIMA: EA2637 USTC: 515132 ESTC: S118476
Syr Degore
London, [s. n.], [vers 1535]
ARLIMA: EA2638 USTC: 518225 ESTC: S91626
Syr Degore
London, John King, 1560
ARLIMA: EA2639 USTC: 505703 517950 ESTC: S110935
Syr Degore
London, William Copland, 1565
ARLIMA: EA2640 USTC: 506297 ESTC: S109523

Éditions modernes

Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry: Re-published Principally from Early Printed Copies, in the Black Letter, [éd. Edward Vernon Utterson], London, Pickering, 1825, 2 t. (ici t. 1, p. 113-155) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Édition antérieure:
- Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry: Re-published Principally from Early Printed Copies, in the Black Letter, [éd. Edward Vernon Utterson], London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817, 2 t. [GB] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Sire Degarre: a metrical romance of the end of the thirteenth century [edited by David Laing], Edinburgh, Abbotsford Club, 1849, xvii + [9] f. + 46 p. [GB] [IA]
Carr, Muriel, Sir Degarre: A Middle English Metrical Romance Edited from the Manuscript and Black Letter Texts, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1923.
Sire Degarre, herausgegeben von Gustav Schleich, Heidelberg, Winter (Englische Textbibliothek, 19), 1929.
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice Hall, 1930, 2 t., x + 1041 p. — Réimpr.: New York, Russell and Russell, 1964.
Rollow, Jack Wilcox, The Text of Sire Degarre, Ph. D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1950.
The Breton Lays in Middle English, edited by Thomas C. Rumble, Detroit, Wayne State University Press (Waynebook, 25), 1965, xxx + 269 p.
Réimpression:
- 1967
Medieval English Romances, edited by A. V. C. Schmidt and Nicolas Jacobs, New York, Holmes and Meier, 1980, 2 t.
The Middle English Breton Lays, edited by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University (Middle English Texts Series), 1995, viii + 444 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

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. 568-578) [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]
- Romances of Chivalry, told and illustrated in fac-simile by John Ashton, London, Unwin, 1887, xii + 356 p. (ici p. 101-119) [GB] [IA]
  Réimpression:
  - Romances of Chivalry, told and illustrated in fac-simile by John Ashton. Popular edition, London, Unwin, 1890, xii + 356 p. [GB] [IA]
- A Wonder Book of Old Romance, by F. J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by A. G. Walker, London, Wells Gardner Darton, [1907], xix + 424 p. (ici p. 256-279) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  Réimpression:
  - A Wonder Book of Old Romance, by F. J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by A. G. Walker, New York, Stokes, [1907], xix + 424 p. [IA]
- Middle English Romances in Translation: Amis and Amiloun, Athelston, Floris and Blancheflor, Havelok the Dane, King Horn, Sir Degare, trad. ang. Kenneth Eckert, Leiden, Sidestone Press, 2015, 289 p.

Études

Archibald, Elizabeth, Incest and the Medieval Imagination, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2001, xv + 295 p.
Colopy, Cheryl, « Sir Degaré: a fairy tale Oedipus », Pacific Coast Philology, 17, 1982, p. 31-39.
Faust, George Patterson, Sir Degaré: A Study of the Texts and Narrative Structure, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1935.
Findon, Joanne, « Supernatural lovers, liminal women, and the female journey », Florilegium, 30, 2013, p. 27-52. [www]
Jacobs, Nicolas, « Old French Degaré and Middle English Degarre and Deswarre », Notes and Queries, n. s., 17, 1970, p. 164-165.
Jacobs, Nicolas, « The Egerton fragment of Sir Degarre », Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 72, 1971, p. 86-96.
Jacobs, Nicolas, « The process of scribal substitution and redaction: a study of the Cambridge fragment of Sir Degarre », Medium Ævum, 53, 1984, p. 26-48.
Jacobs, Nicolas, « The second revision of Sir Degarre: the Egerton fragment and its congeners », Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 85, 1984, p. 95-107.
Jacobs, Nicolas, « The lost conclusion of the Auchinleck Sir Degarre », Notes and Queries, n. s., 37, 1990, p. 154-158.
Jacobs, Nicolas, The Later Versions of "Sir Degarre": A Study in Textual Degeneration, Oxford, Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature (Medium Ævum Monographs, 18), 1995, 124 p.
Moghaddassi, Fanny, Géographies du monde, géographies de l'âme. Le voyage dans la littérature anglaise du Moyen Âge, Paris, Champion (Nouvelle bibliothèque du Moyen Âge, 99), 2010, 469 p.
Compte rendu:
Nathalie Bernard, dans E-rea, 9:2, 2012. [www]
Patterson Faust, George, Sir Degare: A Study of the Texts and Narrative Structure, Princeton, Princeton University Press (Princeton Studies in English, 11), 1935, vi + 99 p.
Priest, Hannah, « "The king o fairy with his rout": fairy magic in the literature of late medieval Britain », Hortulus, 4:1, 2008. [www]
Rosenberg, Bruce A., « The three tales of Sir Degaré », Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 76, 1975, p. 39-51.
Slover, Clark H., « Sire Degarre: a study of a medieval hack writer's methods », University of Texas Studies in English, 11, 1931, p. 6-23.
Smithers, G. V., « Story-patterns in some Breton lays », Medium Ævum, 22:2, 1953, p. 61-92. DOI: 10.2307/43626509
Stokoe, W. C., Jr., The Work of the Redacters of Sir Launfal, Richard Coeur de Lion, and Sir Degaré, Ph. D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1946.
Stokoe, W. C., Jr., « The double problem of Sir Degaré », Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 70, 1955, p. 518-534.

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