| Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale), is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of nine books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Hamlet in Purgatory, Practicing New Historicism, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, and Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited six collections of criticism, including Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies, with Giles Gunn, and is a founding co-editor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alfred David (Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. He is the author of The Strumpet Muse: Art and Morals in Chaucer's Poetry, and editor of the "Romaunt of the Rose" in The Riverside Chaucer and, with George B. Pace, "Chaucer's Minor Poems I" in The Variorum Chaucer. He is the recipient of a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship and Guggenheim and Fulbright Research fellowships and past president of the New Chaucer Society. James Simpson (Ph.D. Cambridge) is Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. An Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he is the author of Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text, Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry, and Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350-1547, Volume 2 of The Oxford English Literary History. |
| PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) Introduction Anglo-Saxon Literature Anglo-Norman Literature Middle English Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Medieval English Old and Middle English Prosody Timeline ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE BEDE (ca. 673-735) and CtEDMON'S HYMN An Ecclesiastical History of the English People [The Story of Caedmon] THE DREAM OF THE ROOD BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney JUDITH KING ALFRED (849-899) Preface to the Pastoral Care THE WANDERER THE WIFE'S LAMENT ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE[Obituary for William the Conqueror] LEGENDARY HISTORIES OF BRITAIN GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH: The History of the Kings of Britain [The Story of Brutus and Diana's Prophecy] WACE: Le Roman de Brut [The Roman Challenge] LAYAMON: Brut[Arthur's Dream] THE MYTH OF ARTHUR'S RETURN Geoffrey of Monmouth: From The History of the Kings of Britain Wace: From Le Roman de Brut Layamon: From Brut CELTIC CONTEXTS EXILE OF THE SONS OF UISLIU THOMAS OF ENGLAND: Le Roman de Tristran [The Deaths of Tristran and Ysolt] MARIE DE FRANCE Lanval Chevrefoil ANCRENE RIWLE (Rule for Anchoresses) [The Parable of the Christ-Knight] MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400) GEOFFREY CHAUCER (ca. 1343-1400) THE CANTERBURY TALES The General Prologue Summary: The Knight's Tale The Miller's Prologue and Tale The Prologue the Tale The Man of Law's Epilogue The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale The Prologue The Tale The Pardoner's Prolegue and Tale The Introduction The Prologue …… CHRIST'S HUMANITY Index |
内容加载中，请稍后...
商品评论（0条）