The pride of life

Titre:	The pride of life
Date:	Fin du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Moralité
Forme:	502 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Prolocutor. Pees, and herkynt hal ifer, [ric] and por, yong and hold, men and wemen that bet her, bot lerit and leut, stout and bold…
Explicit:	… be he so hardy or so wode in his londe to aryve, he wol se his herte blode and he with hym stryve. If [la fin manque]

Manuscrits

Dublin, Irish Record Office, Priory of the Holy Trinity, verso d'un rouleau de comptes allant du 30 juin 1343 au 5 janvier 1344; détruit dans un incendie en 1922

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, 1337–1346, with the Middle English Moral Play "The Pride of Life, éd. James Mills, Dublin, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1891.
Quellen des weltlichen Dramas in England vor Shakespeare. Ein Ergänzungsband zu Dodsley's Old English plays. Herausgegeben von Alois Brandl, Straßburg, Trübner (Quellen und Forschungen zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker, 80), 1898, cxxvi + 666 p. (ici p. viii-, 1- et 650) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Holthausen, F., ed. “The Pride of Life.” Archiv 108 (1902), 34-48.
Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom, edited by David N. Klausner, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), 2008, 126 p. [lib.rochester.edu] DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1z3hm9h

Traductions modernes

Études

Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 436) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Réimpressions:
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1925, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- 1948
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1954, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1963, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
- 1967
- Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Mineola (NY), Dover Publications, 1996, 2 t. en 1 [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Hengstebeck, Irmlind, « Wer träumt in The Pride of Life? », Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 208, 1972, p. 120-122.