Author : Richard S. Sylvester
Publisher : Complete Works of St. Thomas M
ISBN 13 : 9780300009842
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The History of King Richard III by : Richard S. Sylvester
Download or read book The History of King Richard III written by Richard S. Sylvester and published by Complete Works of St. Thomas M. This book was released on 1963 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is generally accepted that More's Richard III initiates modern historical writing, there has been no scholarly edition of either the Latin of the English versions. The Yale St. Thomas More Project has now completed the formidable task of editing this work, and offers it complete, with parallel English (1557) and Latin (1565) texts, a full textual apparatus that lists all the major variant readings from Hardyng's and Halle's Chronicles, a collation of all extant manuscript versions, and, for the first time in full, the important early draft of the Latin text, manuscript Arundel 43 in the College of Arms. The Introduction discusses the development of the text and the circumstances under which it was composed, and there is a commentary which translates major passages preserved only in the Latin versions and examines the relationships between the texts. Richard Sylvester is assistant professor of English at Yale University and executive editor of the St. Thomas More Project. (Volume 1 in preparation.) Previously announced.