Le Morte Darthur: A Norton Critical Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393974645)

No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses--Caxton's 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally agreed to be the more authentic of the two earlier texts. The Norton Critical Edition is the first edition of Malory to recover important elements of this manuscript: paragraphing marginal annotations hierarchies of narrative division as signaled by size and decorative intricacy of initial capitals and font changes The Norton Critical Edition also represents, in black-letter font, the striking rubrication of proper names in the Winchester Manuscript, reconstructing for readers something of an authentic medieval reading experience, one which gives visual support to Malory's extraordinary representation, in character and setting, of a chivalric ideal. No other student edition of Malory contains such extensive contextual and critical support.

Author: Thomas Malory
ISBN-10: 0393974642
ISBN-13: 9780393974645
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2003
Pages: 1008
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.60w x 1.20d