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2. THE ENDING, AND END, OF PIERS PLOWMAN B: THE C-VERSION ORIGINS OF THE FINAL TWO PASSUS.

Author

Warner, Lawrence

Subjects
*ESSAYS, *MIDDLE English poetry, *TEXTUAL criticism, *SCRIBES, *AUTHORSHIP
Abstract

An essay is presented on passus XIX and XX of the B-text of the Middle English poem "Piers Plowman," by William Langland. It provides textual criticism suggesting that the passus in question were derived from passus in the C-text of the poem. It also discusses late medieval writing processes and the role of scribes in creating literature through the copies they created.

Published
2007
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3. The Lady, the Goddess, and the Text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Author

WARNER, LAWRENCE

Subjects
*MIDDLE English literature, *MARGINALIA, *WOMEN in literature, *GODDESSES in literature, *METAMORPHOSIS in literature, *MORGAN le Fay (Legendary character), *TEXTUAL criticism, HISTORY & criticism
Abstract

This essay argues in favor of two emendations concerning women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: of MS "ÞaƷ I [i.e., the lady] were burde bryƷtest, þe burde in mynde hade" (line 1283) to "ÞaƷ [ho] were burde bryƷtest, þe bur[n]e in mynde hade," adopted by many editors but under increasing pressure in recent years; and of the convoluted MS passage in which Bertilak reveals the role of Morgan le Fay (lines 2445-55) to the clearer one resulting from Gollancz's addition of a line whereby he says that through her might he was transmogrified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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