The assembly of ladies

Titre:	The assembly of ladies
Date:	Vers 1470-1480
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	108 septains de vers rimant ababcdd (756 vers)
Contenu:
Incipit:	In Septembre, at fallyng of the leef, the fressh season was al to-gydre done and of the corn was gadred in the sheef; in a gardyn, abowte tweyne after none…
Explicit:	… how thynk ye that the name is?" "Goode, parde!" "Now go, farwele, for they cal after me, my felawes al, and I must after sone." Rede wele my dreame, for now my tale is done.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Chaucerian and Other Pieces, edited from numerous manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, being a supplement to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1897, lxxxiv + 628 p. [GB] [IA]
The Floure and the Leafe, The Assembly of Ladies, The Isle of Ladies, edited by Derek Pearsall, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), 1990, vi + 146 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

Études

Barratt, Alexandra A. T., « The Flower and the Leaf and The Assembly of Ladies: is there a (sexual) difference? », Philological Quarterly, 66, 1987, p. 1-24.
Doob, Penelope Reed, The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Ithaca et London, Cornell University Press, 1990, xix + 355 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2] DOI: 10.7298/jtv3-9j83 ISBN: 9781501738463, 9781501738456, 9780801423932, 9781501738470, 9780801480003, 9781501738463, 9781501738470
Réimpression:
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Evans, Ruth, et Lesley Johnson, « The Assembly of Ladies: a maze of feminist sign-reading? », Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice, éd. Susan Sellers, Linda Hutcheon et Paul Perron, New York, Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1991, p. 171-196.
Fletcher, Bradford Y., « The Assembly of Ladies: text and context », Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 82, 1988, p. 229-234.
McMillan, Ann, « "Fayre Sisters Al": The Flower and the Leaf and The Assembly of Ladies », Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 1, 1982, p. 27-42.
Pearsall, Derek, « The Assembly of Ladies and Generydes », The Review of English Studies, 12:47, 1961, p. 229-237. DOI: 10.1093/res/XII.47.229
Stephens, John, « The questioning of love in the Assembly of Ladies », Review of English Studies, n. s., 24, 1973, p. 129-140.