Noble and joyous histories
Subtitle: English romances, 1375-1650
By: edited by Eiléan Ní Cuilleanáin & J.D. Pheifer.
Contributors: Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan, 1942-; Pheifer, J. D.
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Romances, English -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Civilization, Medieval, in literature.; Renaissance -- England.
Description: This book covers the many branches of the romance tradition in the central period of English literature, from the major alliterative works to the Renaissance and beyond. It includes essays on Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Wife of Bath's Tale, on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, on Malory's Morte Darthur, on burlesque romance, on Spencer's Faerie Queene, on Sidney's Arcadia, and on romance epic in the seventeenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.