Ywain and Gawain

Titre:	Ywaine and Gawin (éd. Ritson); Ywain and Gawain
Date:	Entre 1325 et 1350
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	4032 vers
Contenu:	Traduction d'Yvain de Chrétien de Troyes
Incipit:	Here bigyns Ywain and Gawain. Almyghti God that made mankyn, He schilde His servandes out of syn And mayntene tham with myght and mayne That herkens Ywayne and Gawayne…
Explicit:	… Bot Jhesu Criste for his grete grace In hevyn-blis grante us a place To bide in, if his wills be. Amen, amen, par charité. Ywain and Gawayn thus makes endyng God grant us all hys dere blyssing. Amen.

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Cotton, Galba E. IX, f. 4ra-25rb [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Ancient English Metrical Romances. Selected and published by Joseph Ritson, and revised by Edmund Goldsmid, Edinburgh, Goldsmid, 1884-1885, 3 t. (ici t. 1, p. 115-208) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Édition antérieure:
- Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës, selected and publish'd by Joseph Ritson, London, Bulmer for Nicol, 1802, 3 t., ccxxiv + 215, [iii] + 313, [iii] + 444 p. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Ywain and Gawain. Mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Gustav Schleich, Oppeln et Leipzig, Franck's Buchhandlung (Georg Maske), 1887, [v] + lv + 135 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 1, p. 485-527) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition partielle.
Harrington, Norman Taylor, Ywain and Gawain: A Critical Edition, Ph. D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1960.
Taglicht, J., An Edition of the Middle English Romances Ywain and Gawain, with Introduction, Notes, Glossary, D. Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 1964.
Ywain and Gawain, edited by Albert B. Friedman and Norman T. Harrington, London, New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society, 254), 1964, lxii + 145 p. + [1] f. — Réimpr.: 1981.
Five Middle English Narratives, edited with an introduction by Robert D. Stevick, Indianapolis et New York, Bobbs-Merrill (The Library of Literature, 11), 1967, xxxvi + 292 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
Medieval English Romances, edited by A. V. C. Schmidt and Nicolas Jacobs, New York, Holmes and Meier, 1980, 2 t.
Ywain and Gawain; Sir Percyvell of Gales; The Anturs of Arther, edited with an introduction and commentary by Maldwyn Mills; consultant editor for this volume, Malcolm Andrew, London, Dent; Rutland, Tuttle (Everyman's Library), 1992, xxxviii + 210 p.
Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain, edited by Mary Flowers Braswell, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), 1995, vii + 212 p. [lib.rochester.edu]
Liste complète: Database of Middle English Romance

Traductions modernes

Études

Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Calin, William, The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England, Toronto, Buffalo et London, University of Toronto Press (University of Toronto Romance Series), 1994, xvi + 587 p. [IA]
Frey, Johannes, Spielräume des Erzählens: zur Rolle der Figuren in den Erzählkonzeptionen von Yvain, Îwein, Ywain und Ívens saga, Stuttgart, Hirzel (Literaturen und Künste der Vormoderne, 4), 2008, 269 p.
Lodén, Sofia, French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture, Cambridge, Brewer (Studies in Old Norse Literature), 2021, ix + 216 p.
Mehl, Dieter, Die mittelenglischen Romanzen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, 93), 1967, 229 p.
Traduction:
- Mehl, Dieter, The middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, 300 p.
Sullivan, Joseph M., « Youth and older age in the dire adventure of Chrétien's Yvain, the Old Swedish Hærra Ivan, Hartmann's Iwein and the Middle English Ywain and Gawain », Arthurian Literature XXIV: The European Dimensions of Arthurian Literature, éd. Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma et Keith Busby, Cambridge, Brewer, 2007, p. 104-120.
Whetter, K. S., Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance, Aldershot et Burlington, Ashgate, 2008, xii + 205 p. [IA]
Compte rendu:
Yin Liu, dans The Medieval Review, 09.11.11. [www]

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