Malory's Library: The Sources of the "Morte Darthur"
- Author / Editor
- Norris, Ralph.
Malory's Library: The Sources of the "Morte Darthur"
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008.
- Physical Description
- [viii], 187 pp.
- Series
- Arthurian Studies, no. 71.
- Description
- Norris tallies and assesses the major and minor sources of Malory's "Morte Darthur," suggesting that Malory was more widely read than is usually assumed. Chaucer's influence (especially WBT, FranT, and KnT) is neither close nor sustained in plot, but echoes of language and various sequences of ideas indicate that Malory had read works by Chaucer (along with Lydgate's "Pageant of Knowledge" and various Middle English romances) in addition to the major French romances.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion