"... provides the reader with an easily accessible and flexible yet well-structured wealth of information on the literary, historical and cultural context of the Decameron, thus allowing a vivid yet rigorously philological understanding of the past in which the work was conceived"
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"The University of Chicago is celebrating the acquisition of a manuscript of Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) and its reunion with Le Jeu des échecs moralisé (The Moralized Game of Chess), a manuscript that has been in the Library’s collection since 1931. Each of these two popular medieval texts — one a courtly romance, the other a treatise on medieval society that uses the game of chess as its framework — was written and decorated in France, ca. 1365."
Subscriber: VIVAAdding a further 20,000 poems to the original collection, English Poetry, Second Edition contains over 183,000 poems. Essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th, its works are drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources and represent more than 2,700 poets. The newly-added works represent both the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and the poetic legacies of English writers only recently brought back to scholarly attention.
Subscriber: VIVAEnglish Drama contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century - the likely date of the Shrewsbury Fragments - to the early twentieth. It offers exhaustive coverage of the prodigious dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality plays and mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas, including works by major dramatists such as Ben Jonson, Aphra Behn, William Wycherley, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Synge
Book Sources: Literature - Medieval and Renaissance
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"The 293 works in this first part of an extensive anthology include the lengthy Prologue to Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” and “Gest of Robin Hood,” as well as over 1,000 footnotes that elucidate regional dialect and obscure words."
Introduction.--King Horn.--Havelok.--Floriz and Blauncheflur.--Sir Orfeo.--Amis and Amiloun.--The gest hystoriale of the destruction of Troy.--Sir Thopas.--Emaré.--Sir Degrevant.
rendered in English verse by Edward Fitzgerald. The text of the first edition illustrated by Arthur Szyk. 2nd copy
in English verse by Edward FitzGerald ; illustrations by Willy Poginy.
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Edited and translated by Charles Fantazzi.
""Silvae" are poetical introductions to his [Poliziano's] courses in literature at the University of Florence, written in Latin hexameters." - Google Books
Edited and translated by Jeanne Krochalis & Edward Peters.
"...puts the reader in touch with the sources that helped shape Langland's somber vision. The representative documents included in this book, often cited in connection with the poem yet difficult to come by, disclose the background of Piers Plowman ..." U of Penn Press
Translation and introductions by Marcelle Thiébaux.
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