Amoryus and Cleopes

Titre:	Amoryus and Cleopes (éd. Craig)
Date:	1449
Dédicataire:	Sir Miles Stapleton († 1466) et sa femme Katherine de la Pole
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	319 septains (2211 vers)
Contenu:	Adaptation anglaise du récit de Pirame et Tisbé d'après les Métamorphoses d'Ovide.
Incipit:	Thys ys the story off a knyght, howe he dyd many wurthy dedys be the help off a lady, the qwyche taught hym to ouercome a meruulus dragon, the qwyche was a .c. fote longe. And this knyght was clepyd Amoryus, the lady Cleopes. The chauns of loue and eke the peyn of Amoryus, the knyg[h]t, for Cleopes sake, and eke how bothe in fere louyd and aftyr deyd, my purpos ys to endyght. And now, O goddes, I the beseche off kunnyng, that Lanyfyca rhyght!…
Explicit:	… in vertuys; for he off rymyng toke the besynes to comfforte them that schuld falle in heuynes. For tyme on-ocupyid, qwan folk haue lytyl to do, on haly-dayis to rede, me thynk yt best so. Here endyth the story off Amoryus the knyght and off Cleopes the lady.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Works of John Metham, Including the Romance of Amoryus and Cleopes, edited from the unique MS. in the Garrett collection in the Library of Princeton University, by Hardin Craig, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 132), 1916, xliii + 184 p. (ici p. 1-81) [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- Millwood, Kraus Reprint, 1974
John Metham, Amoryus and Cleopes, edited by Stephen F. Page, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), 1999, 152 p. [metseditions.org] DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv13gvjc4

Traductions modernes

Études

Dalrymple, Roger, « Amoryus and Cleopes: John Metham's metamorphosis of Chaucer and Ovid », The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance, éd. Phillipa Hardman, Cambridge, Brewer, 2002, p. 149-162.
Doyle, Kara, « Fabulous women, fables of patronage: Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes and BL MS Additional 10304 », Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya, éd. Seeta Chaganti, New York, Fordham University Press (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies), 2012.
Fumo, Jamie C., « John Metham's "straunge style": Amoryus and Cleopes as Chaucerian fragment », The Chaucer Review, 43:2, 2008, p. 215-237.
Page, Stephen, « John Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes: intertextuality and innovation in a Chaucerian poem », The Chaucer Review, 33, 1998, p. 201-208.
Vines, Amy N., Women's Power in Late Medieval Romance, Cambridge, Brewer (Studies in Medieval Romance, 15), 2011, xi + 169 p. ISBN: 9781843842750