The pastime of pleasure

Titre:	The passe tyme of pleasure (éd. 1517)
Date:	1506
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	46 chapitres composés de septains rimant ababbcc (environ 6000 vers)
Contenu:	Poème allégorique dans lequel le héros, Grande Amoure, visite d'abord la Tour de la Doctrine, dont les sept filles, personnifiant les sept sciences du Quadrivium et du Trivium, instruisent le héros. Après des séjours au Château de la Chevalerie, à la Tour de la Chasteté, etc., et des rencontres avec un géant à trois têtes (nommées Fausseté, Imagination et Parjure), il atteint le palais de « la Bel Pucell », l'épouse, est menacé par Vieillesse, Politique et Avarice, et meurt avec Contrition et Conscience à ses côtés.
Incipit:	Here begynneth the passe tyme of pleasure. [Table des matières] How graunde amoure walked in a medowe and met with fame enuyronned with tongues of fyre. ca. .i. 6… This boke called [the] pastyme of pleasure was made and compyled by Stephen Hawes one of the gromes of the most honorable chambre of our souerayne lorde kynge Henry the seueth. The .xxi. yere of his most noble reygne / chapytted and marked after the table here before sette. Ryyght myghty prynce / & redoubted souerayne saylynge forthe well / in the shyppe of grace ouer the wawes / of this lyfe vncertayne ryght towarde heuen / to haue dwellynge place…
Explicit:	… to gyue me grace to wynne the vyctory of the deuyll / the worlde and of my body and that I may my selfe well apply thy sone and the to laude and magnyfy. Explicit. The pastyme of pleasure.
Incipit:	The excusacyon of the auctore. Vnto all poetes I do me excuse yf that I offende for lacke of scyence this lytell boke yet do ye not refuse though it be deuoyde of famous eloquence…
Explicit:	… his noble fame for to laude and remeue whiche in his lyfe the flouthe dyde eschewe makynge grete bokes to be in memory on whose foule I pray god haue mercy. Here endeth the pastyme of pleasure. Inprynted at London in Fletestrete / at the sygne of the sonne / by Wynkyn de Morde / the pere of oure lorde. M. CCCCC. and .xvij. therd daye of December.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

The pastime of pleasure
[London], [Wynkyn de Worde], [1509]
ARLIMA: EA4710 USTC: 516171 ESTC: S121390
The passe tyme of pleasure
[London], [Wynkyn de Worde], 3 décembre 1517
ARLIMA: EA4711 USTC: 518669 ESTC: S92885
The historie of graunde Amoure and la bell Pucel, called the Pastime of plesure conteining the knowledge of the seven sciences, and the course of mans life in this worlde
[London], John Wayland, [1554]
ARLIMA: EA4712 USTC: 505011 ESTC: S106025
The history of graund Amoure and la bel Pucel, called the Pastime of pleasure conteynyng the knowledge of the seven sciences, and the course of mans lyfe in this worlde
[London], [William Copland pour John Walley], 1555
ARLIMA: EA4713 USTC: 505185 ESTC: S112573
The history of graund amoure and la bel pucell, called the pastime of pleasure conteynyng the knowledge of the seven sciences, and the course of mans lyfe in this worlde
[London], [William Copland pour Richard Tottell], 1555
ARLIMA: EA4714 USTC: 505194 ESTC: S119776

Éditions modernes

Select Works of the British Poets, from Chaucer to Jonson, with biographical sketches by Robert Southey, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831, viii + 1016 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition partielle.
The Pastime of Pleasure: an allegorical poem, by Stephen Hawes. Reprinted from the edition of 1555. [Edited by Thomas Wright], London, Richards for the Percy Society, 1845, xii + 220 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
English Verse Between Chaucer and Surrey Being Examples of Conventional Secular Poetry, Exclusive of Romance, Ballad, Lyric, and Drama, in the Period from Henry the Fourth to Henry the Eighth, edited with introductions and notes by Eleanor Prescott Hammond, Durham, Duke University Press; London, Cambridge University Press, 1927, xii + 591 p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpression:
- English Verse Between Chaucer and Surrey Being Examples of Conventional Secular Poetry, Exclusive of Romance, Ballad, Lyric, and Drama, in the Period from Henry the Fourth to Henry the Eighth, edited with introductions and notes by Eleanor Prescott Hammond, New York, Octagon Books, 1965, xii + 591 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition d'extraits.
The Pastime of Pleasure by Stephen Hawes: a literal reprint of the earliest complete copy (1517) with variant readings from the editions of 1509, 1554, and 1555, together with introduction, notes, glossary, and indexes by William Edward Mead, [GB] [IA]
Réimpressions:
- Millwood, Kraus Reprint, 1981
- Woodbridge et Rochester, Boydell and Brewer, 2000

Traductions modernes

Études

Burkart, Eugen A., Stephen Hawes' "The Pastime of Pleasure," Allegorical Poem, Written about 1506, First Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1509. Critical Introduction to a Proposed New Edition of the Text, London, Wohlleben, 1899, 60 p. [GB] [IA]
Fuhr, Karl, Lautuntersuchungen zu Stephen Hawes' Gedicht "The Pastime of Pleasure", Marburg, s. n., 1891, 52 p. [GB] [IA]
Heindl, Karl, Untersuchung der Quellen von Stephen Hawes' allegorischem Gedichte "The Pastime of Pleasure". 2. Hälfte, Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1923, x + 134 p.
Natter, Hans, Untersuchung der Quellen von Stephen Hawes' allegorischem Gedichte "Pastime of pleasure", Passau, Passavia, 1911, 91 p. [GB] [IA]
Édition antérieure:
- Natter, Hans, Untersuchung der Quellen von Stephen Hawes' allegorischem Gedichte "Pastime of pleasure", Passau, Passavia, 1911, 49 p. [GB] [IA]
Zander, Friedrich, Stephen Hawes' "Passetyme of Pleasure" verglichen mit Edmund Spenser's "Faerie queene" unter Berücksichtigung der allegorischen Dichtung in England, Rostock, Hinstorffs Buchdruckerei, 1905, 112 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]

Œuvre de Stephen Hawes

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