Morte Arthur (version en vers allitératifs)

Titre:	Alliterative Morte Arthure
Date:	Vers 1400
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	4346 vers
Contenu:	Adaptation anglaise du roman anonyme en prose La mort le roi Artu.
Incipit:	Here begynnes Morte Arthure. Now grett glorious godd \| thurghe grace of hym seluene, and the precyous prayere \| of hys prys modyr…
Explicit:	… Here endes Morte Arthure, writene by Robert of Thorthone. (d'une main plus récente:) R. Thornton dictus, qui scripsit sit benedictus. Amen.
Voir aussi:	Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur

Manuscrits

Lincoln, Cathedral Library, 91 (A. I. 17), f. 53r-98v [⇛ Description]
« Thornton manuscript ».

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Morte Arthure. The alliterative romance of the death of king Arthur. Now first printed from a manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, Brixton Hill, « for private circulation only », 1847, xxiii + 368 p. [GB] [IA]
Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur. Edited from Robert Thornton's MS. in the library of Lincoln Cathedral by Edmund Brock. A new edition, London, Trübner for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 8), 1871, xix + 208 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition antérieure:
- Morte Arthure. Edited from Robert Thornton's MS. (ab. 1440 A. D.) in the library of Lincoln Cathedral, by George G. Perry, London, Trübner for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 8), 1865, xx + 144 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpressions:
- 1898
- 1904
- Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur. Edited from Robert Thornton's MS. in the library of Lincoln Cathedral by Edmund Brock. A new edition, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 8), 1937, xix + 208 p. [GB] [IA]
- Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur. Edited from Robert Thornton's MS. in the library of Lincoln Cathedral by Edmund Brock. A new edition, London, Trübner for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 8), 1937, xix + 208 p. [GB] [IA]
Morte Arthure. An alliterative poem of the 14th century from the Lincoln MS. written by Robert Thornton. Edited, with introduction, notes, and glossary, by Mary Macleod Banks, New York et Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co., 1900, 206 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- New York, AMS Press, 1974
Morte Arthure, mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und Glossar herausgegeben von Erik Björkman, Heidelberg, Winter; New York, Stechert (Alt- und mittelenglische Texte, 9), 1915, xxviii + 263 p. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Morte Arthure, éd. John Finlayson, London, Edward Arnold (York Medieval Texts), 1967, viii + 163 p.
Middle English Literature, edited by Charles W. Dunn and Edward T. Byrnes, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, xi + 564 p. — Réimpr.: New York et London, Garland (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1330), 1990, xi + 568 p.
The Alliterative Morte Arthure: a critical edition edited, with an introduction, notes, and glossary, by Valerie Krishna. Preface by Rossell Hope Robbins, New York, Burt Franklin, 1976, xv + 361 p. [IA]
Medieval English Romances, edited by A. V. C. Schmidt and Nicolas Jacobs, New York, Holmes and Meier, 1980, t. 2, p. 185-195.
Morte Arthure: a critical edition [by] Mary Hamel, New York et London, Garland (Garland Medieval Texts, 9), 1984, xi + 546 p.
King Arthur's Death: The Middle English "Stanzaic Morte Arthur" and "Alliterative Morte Arthure", edited by Larry D. Benson; revised by Edward E. Foster, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University (Middle English Texts), 1994, xii + 292 p. [IA] [metseditions.org]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- The Alliterative Morte Arthure; The Owl and the Nightingale, and Five Other Middle English Poems in a modernized version with comments on the poems and notes, by John Gardner, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press; London, Feffer and Simons (Arcturus Books), 1971, xi + 298 p.
- The Alliterative Morte Arthure: a new verse translation by Valerie Krishna, Lanham et London, University Press of America, 1983, xxx + 113 p. [IA]
- The Death of King Arthur, translated by Simon Armitage, London, Faber and Faber, 2012, xvii + 163 p.
en français:
- Les Mort d'Arthur moyen-anglaises en vers, éd. Colette Stévanovitch et Anne Mathieu, Turnhout, Brepols (Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Âge, 17), 2017, 567 p. ISBN: 9782503569291
  Compte rendu:
  Marie-Françoise Alamichel, dans Le Moyen Âge, 124:1, 2018, p. 145-147. DOI: 10.3917/rma.241.0145

Études

Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Benson, Larry D., « The alliterative Morte Arthure and medieval tragedy », Tennessee Studies in Literature, 11, 1966, p. 75-87.
Benson, Larry D., « The date of the alliterative Morte Arthure », Mediaeval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein, éd. J. B. Bessinger, Jr., et Robert R. Raymo, New York, New York University Press, 1976, p. 20-29. — Réimpr. dans Contradictions: from Beowulf to Chaucer. Selected Studies of Larry D. Benson, éd. Theodore M. Andersson et Stephen A. Barney Aldershot, Scholar Press, 1995, p. 155-174.
Bradley, ??, Athenaeum, December 1900; January and February 1901.
Branscheid, P., « Über die Quellen des Morte Arthure », Anglia, 7 (Anzeiger), 1885, p. 285.
Bruce, J. Douglas, « The development of the Mort Arthur theme in mediaeval romance », The Romanic Review, 4, 1913, p. 403-471. [Gallica] [GB] [HT] [IA]
Canuteson, John Allen, Conflict between the Body and the Soul as a Metaphor of the Moral Struggle in the Middle Ages, with Special Reference to Middle English Literature, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Florida, 1975, vi + 250 p. [IA]
Diamond, Arlyn, « Heroic subjects: women and the alliterative Morte Arthure », Medieval Women - Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays for Felicity Riddy, éd. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchison, Carol Meale et Lesley Johnson, Turnhout, Brepols (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts), 2000, p. 293-308.
Eadie, J., « The alliterative Morte Arthure: structure and meaning », English Studies, 63, 1982, p. 1-12.
Finlayson, John, « Two minor sources for the alliterative Morte Arthure », Notes and Queries, 207, 1962, p. 132-133.
Finlayson, John, « Morte Arthure: the date and a source for the contemporary references », Speculum, 42:4, 1967, p. 624-638. DOI: 10.2307/2851094
Finlayson, John, « The concept of the hero in Morte Arthure », Chaucer und seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer, éd. Arno Esch, Tübingen, Niemeyer (Buchreihe der Anglia, Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 14), 1968, p. 249-274.
Fuwa, Yuri, « A “just war”? A further reassessment of the Alliterative Morte Arthure », War and Peace: Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature 800-1800, éd. Albrecht Classen et Nadia Margolis, Berlin, de Gruyter (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 8), 2011, p. 349-376.
Fuwa, Yuri, « Curtana, "Montjoie" to Clarente? Notes on the sword of Mordred in the alliterative Morte Arthure », "Si est tens a fester". Hommage à Philippe Walter, éd. Kôji Watanabe, Tokyo, CEMT Editions, 2022, p. 90-103.
Göller, Karl Heinz, éd., The Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Reassessment of the Poem, Cambridge, Brewer, 1981.
Hamel, Mary, « The dream of a king: the alliterative Morte Arthure and Dante », The Chaucer Review, 14, 1980, p. 298-312.
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Kaeuper, Richard W., Holy Warriors: the Religious Ideology of Chivalry, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (The Middle Ages Series), 2009, xi + 331 p. [IA]
Compte rendu:
Steven Muhlberger, dans The Medieval Review, 09.12.16, 2009. [www]
Réimpressions:
- 2012
- 2014
Keiser, George R., « Edward III and the Alliterative Morte Arthure », Speculum, 48, 1973, p. 37-51.
Keiser, George R., « Narrative structure in the alliterative Morte Arthure, 26-720 », The Chaucer Review, 9, 1974, p. 130-144.
Kelly, H. A., « The non-tragedy of Arthur », Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honor of G. H. Russell, éd. Gregory Kratzmann et James Simpson, Cambridge et Dover, Brewer, 1986, p. 92-114.
Kennedy, Edward Donald, « Generic intertextuality in the English Alliterative Morte Arthure: the Italian connection », Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature, éd. Norris J. Lacy, New York et London, Garland (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 1997), 1996, p. 41-56.
Réimpression:
- New York et Abingdon, Routledge, 2012
Kennedy, Edward Donald, « Malory, the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Chauce », Arthuriana, 28:3, 2018, p. 51-65. DOI: 10.1353/art.2018.0025
Krishna, Valerie, « Parataxis, formulaic density, and thrift in the Alliterative Morte Arthure », Speculum, 57, 1982, p. 63-83.
Lumiansky, Robert M., « The alliterative Morte Arthure, the concept of medieval tragedy, and the cardinal virtue fortitude », Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Proceedings of the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University. 3. Summer 1967, éd. John M. Headley, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p. 95-118.
Matthews, William, The Tragedy of Arthur: A Study of the Alliterative "Morte Arthure", Berkeley, University of California Press, 1960.
McIntosh, Angus, « The textual transmission of the alliterative Morte Arthure », English and Medieval Studies Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien, éd. Norman Davis et C. L. Wrenn, London, Allen and Unwin, 1962, p. 231-240.
Mehl, Dieter, Die mittelenglischen Romanzen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, 93), 1967, 229 p. [IA]
Traduction:
- Mehl, Dieter, The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, 300 p. [IA]
Miles, Brent, « "Lyouns full lothely": dream interpretation and Boethian denaturing in the alliterative Morte Arthure », Arthuriana, 18:1, 2008, p. 41-62. [jstor.org]
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Neilson, G., « The Viscount of Rome in Morte Arthure », Athenaeum, November 1902.
Nicholson, Roger, « Translating treason: shameful death in French and English romances of Arthur's last days », Medieval Romances Across European Borders, éd. Miriam Edlich-Muth, Turnhout, Brepols (Medieval Narratives in Transmission, 1), 2018, p. 155-176.
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O'Sharkey, Eithne M., « King Arthur's prophetic dreams and the role of Modred in Layamon's Brut and the alliterative Morte Arthure », Romania, 99, 1978, p. 347-362. DOI: 10.3406/roma.1978.1932
Porter, Elizabeth, « Chaucer's knight, the alliterative Morte Arthure and medieval laws of war: a reconsideration », Nottingham Medieval Studies, 27, 1983, p. 56-78.
Reicke, Curt, Untersuchungen über den Stil der mittelenglischen alliterierenden Gedichte: Morte Arthure, The Destruction of Troy, The Wars of Alexander, The Siege of Jerusalem, Sir Gawayn and the Greek Knight. Ein Beitrag zur Lösung der Huchown-Frage, Königsberg i. Pr., Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, 1906, [iii] + 87 p. [GB] [IA]
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Compte rendu:
Yin Liu, dans The Medieval Review, 09.11.11. [www]

Version anglaise de La mort le roi Artu

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