Norman Davis (1) (1913–1989)
Auteur de The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Norman Davis, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Norman Davis
The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling (1963) — Directeur de publication — 253 exemplaires
Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) (1970) 15 exemplaires
English and medieval studies : presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (1962) — Directeur de publication — 12 exemplaires
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Part I (1971) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Part II (1976) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Part III (2005) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires
Non-cycle plays and the Winchester dialogues facsimiles of plays and fragments in various manuscripts and the dialogues 3 exemplaires
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Part I-III (2005) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo (1330) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 3,464 exemplaires
English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740 (1959) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 116 exemplaires
Beowulf : Reproduced in facsimile from the unique manuscript, British Museum (1959) — Introduction — 31 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1913-05-16
- Date de décès
- 1989-12-02
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- New Zealand
- Lieu de naissance
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- Lieu du décès
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Dunedin, New Zealand
Sofia, Bulgaria
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
England, UK - Études
- University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
University of Oxford (Merton College)
Otago Boys' High School, Dunedin, New Zealand - Professions
- Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
Professor of English Language, University of Glasgow (1949-1959) - Prix et distinctions
- Rhodes Scholar
MBE (1945)
Sir Israel Gollancz Prize (1973)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 497
- Popularité
- #49,748
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 19
There’s also the Cambridge Prologue, on which Wikipedia is silent. This dates from about 1275. The prologue to a lost play, essentially the equivalent to the Prolocutor’s speech in Pride of Life, delivered first in Norman French and then in English. Rather enlightening as to the ethnic split still existing in the country at that late date. Perhaps the entire thing was bilingual.
I’ll not enumerate everything in the volume. You’ll just have to trust me that it’s all very interesting. The editor’s approach is to make the texts readable while interfering with them as little as possible. There’s an excellent glossary, but no explanatory notes. I hardly missed them though as the introductions (which are as long as the actual texts) are so good. I really can’t fault it as an anthology.
It replaces an earlier EETS volume, ‘ The Non-Cycle Mystery Plays’ ES 104. This new version has some extra pieces. I’ve not seen the earlier one, but EETS not being for profit they’re really not inclined to replace volumes unnecessarily. The editor, Osborn Waterhouse, appears to have been a dribbling idiot and comes in for some criticism here. Apparently he lost the manuscript of the Norwich Grocers’ Play. Don’t know if he was also a member of the IRA.… (plus d'informations)