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ARTHURIAN LITERATURE XXIII ARTHURIAN LITERATURE Incorporating Arthurian Yearbook ISSN 0261–9946 Editor: Keith Busby,University of Wisconsin, Madison Assistant Editor: Roger Dalrymple Editorial Board James Carley,York University Julia Crick,University of Exeter Tony Hunt,University of Oxford Marianne Kalinke,Illinois University Norris Lacy,Pennsylvania State University Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan,National Library of Wales Felicity Riddy,University of York Alison Stones,University of Pittsburgh Toshiyuki Takamiya,University of Keio Raymond H. Thompson,Acadia University ArthurianLiteratureisaninterdisciplinarypublicationdevotedtothescholarlyand critical study of all aspects of the Arthurian legend in Europe in the medieval and early modern periods. Articles on writings from later periods are included if they relate very directly to medieval and early modern sources, although the editors welcomebibliographicalstudiesofallperiods.Articlesmaybeupto20,000wordsin length;shortitems,ofunder5,000words,arepublishedasNotes.Updatesonearlier articles are also welcomed. MaterialforconsiderationshouldbesenttoBoydell&Brewer:contributorsshould followthestylesheetprintedattheendofvolumeXIIoftheseries.Thecontentsof previous volumes are listed at the back of this book. A r t h u r i a n L i t e r a t u r e X X I I I General Editor KEITH BUSBY Assistant Editor ROGER DALRYMPLE D. S. BREWER © Contributors 2006 All Rights Reserved.Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 2006 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge ISBN 1 84384 097 9 D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc, 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Cornwall CONTENTS General Editor’s Foreword vii I Beyond Shame: Chivalric Cowardice and Arthurian Narrative 1 Andrew Lynch II Malory’s Forty Knights 18 P. J. C. Field III Fooling with Language: Sir Dinadan in Malory’sMorte Darthur 30 Joyce Coleman IV William Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde and the Editing of Malory’s 46 Morte Darthur D. Thomas Hanks Jr V Ballad and Popular Romance in the Percy Folio 68 Raluca L. Radulescu VI Local Hero: Gawain and the Politics of Arthurianism 81 Margaret Robson VII Promise-postponement Device inThe Awntyrs off Arthure: 95 a Possible Narrative Model Martin Connolly VIII L’Atre perilleuxand the Erasure of Identity 109 Norris J. Lacy IX The Theme of the Handsome Coward in the Post-Vulgate 117 Queste del Saint Graal Fanni Bogdanow X A Time of Gifts? Jean de Nesle, William A. Nitze and 130 thePerlesvaus Tony Grand XI Thomas Love Peacock’sThe Misfortunes of Elphin and 157 the Romantic Arthur Robert Gossedge GENERAL EDITOR’S FOREWORD Vol.XXIIIofArthurianLiteraturecontainsawide-rangingselectionofarti- cles dealing with texts from the classical and ‘post-classical’ periods of French romance through Malory’s Arthuriad to Thomas Love Peacock. AndrewLynch’samply-documentedstudyofcowardiceandArthuriannarra- tive reveals a subtle and shifting treatment of the theme in works from the twelfththrough thefifteenthcentury.No-oneknowsthehistory andsources ofMalory’sMorteDarthurbetterthanPeterField,whosecareful examina- tion of the forty knights in Caxton and the Winchester manuscript demonstrates both the potential and limitations of textual criticism. The extraordinary character of Sir Dinadan in Malory is revealed through Joyce Coleman’s persuasive analysis of the language acts in which he takes part. D. Thomas Hanks Jr compares the various states of Malory’s text from the Winchester manuscript through Wynkyn de Worde, arguing that modern editions canboth facilitateandhinder ourappreciation oftheauthor’sstyle. The relationship between popular romance and the ballad is considered by Raluca Radulescu, who argues that a detailed comparison of the two would help reveal their significance for their primary audiences. Margaret Robson showsexactlyhowpervasivetheArthuriantraditionwasinapoliticalsense, demonstratingitsmeaningfortherebellionofOwainGlynDwr,anddrawing parallels with some of the later English Gawain romances. The Awntyrs Off Arthure is also the subject of Martin Connolly’s contribution, in which he reveals that the sequence of spiritual promise and worldly postponement is one of the basic narrative structures of the poem. Norris J. Lacy approaches L’Atre périlleux through its author’s complex and varied exploration of notionsofidentity,whileFanniBogdanowre-opensthedossieroftheHand- someCowardwithparticularreferencetothePost-Vulgate QuestedelSaint Graal.TonyGrandlooksatthePerlesvaus,stilloneofthegreatunexplored proseromances,reviewingthethornypresentationissueinthelightofJeande Nesle’s biography. Finally, Robert Gossedge’s article on Thomas Love Peacock’sTheMisfortunesofElphinshowshowthispre-Tennysonianwork servesasasympatheticshowpiecefortheauthor’sknowledgeofWelshtradi- tion. Keith Busby Madison, Wisconsin vii
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