num_pages: 1008
description: The text is unabridged, with original spelling and extensive, easy-to-use marginal glosses and footnotes. No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses―Caxton’s 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester Manuscript. The Winchester Manuscript is now generally agreed to be the more authentic of the two earlier texts. The Norton Critical Edition is the first edition of Malory to recover important elements of this manuscript: paragraphing marginal annotations hierarchies of narrative division as signaled by size and decorative intricacy of initial capitals and font changes The Norton Critical Edition also represents, in black-letter font, the striking rubrication of proper names in the Winchester Manuscript, reconstructing for readers something of an authentic medieval reading experience, one which gives visual support to Malory’s extraordinary representation, in character and setting, of a chivalric ideal. No other student edition of Malory contains such extensive contextual and critical support.
language: English
title: Le Morte D'arthur
titlecomplete: Le Morte D'arthur
characters: King Uther Pendragon, Sir Balan, Vivien, Sir Kay, Sir Gawain, Merlin (Arthurian wizard), Sir Bedivere, Queen Guinevere, Duke Gorlois, Sir Mordred, Sir Lancelot, Melwys, Sir Tristram, Igraine, Sir Galahad, King Arthur, Sir Balin, King Lot, Sir Gareth, Sir Lucan de Butler, Morgan le Fay, King Leodegrance, Sir Perceval
genres: Mythology, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Poetry, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Arthurian
ratings_count: 37042
places: Britain, Logres
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company