Arthurian Intertextualities Misreading and Rereading Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative and Stanzaic Mortes [#1011581]

Fiona Tolhurst, "Arthurian Intertextualities: Misreading and Rereading Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative and Stanzaic Mortes"
English | ISBN: 0472133624 | 2025 | 326 pages | EPUB | 1304 KB
Readers encountering the Middle English Arthurian tradition are confronted by three texts with confusingly similar titles: an anonymous poem in alliterative verse called Morte Arthure, an anonymous poem in eight-line stanzas entitled Le Morte Arthur, and Sir Thomas Malory's influential prose Arthuriad, LeMorte Darthur [sic]. To add to the confusion, Malory made use of both English poems to augment his French sources in composing his Morte Darthur, so specialists often speak of two or more of these English Mortes in the same breath. Yet each Morte poem deserves to be studied on its own merits.