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**Once Again King Arthur and the Ambassadors: A Textual Crux in Malory’s** ** Morte Darthur ** by Ralph Norris is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract: From the perspective of textual studies, ‘King Arthur and Emperor Lucius’ is the most interesting part of Sir Thomas Malory’s __Morte Darthur__. Its linguistic tone color is unique in the __Morte Darthur__, which seems to have disquieted the producers of the early copies, for both medieval witnesses to the text, the Winchester Manuscript and William Caxton’s printed edition,show signs of deliberate interference. P. J. C. Field’s recent edition uses both witnesses to attempt to restore Malory’s authorial text. However, the unusual textual situation complicates the application of Field’s critical method of editing. Caxton sometimes uses Malory’s words and sometimes his own; some of his summarizations contain many of Malory’s original words but often in a frame of his own devising, and at times he completely rewrites passages in his own words. Because Winchester has also been abridged, wherever the two diverge, and particularly within the first page or two, the possibilities will be that one or the other witness will retain Malory’s original text, that both contain parts of Malory’s original, or that Malory’s words have been lost from both texts. Determining which is most
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- Author
- Ralph Norris
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)