Norman Davis (1) (1913–1989)
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English and medieval studies : presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (1962) — Herausgeber — 12 Exemplare
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Sir Orfeo (1330) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 3,470 Exemplare
English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740 (1959) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 116 Exemplare
Beowulf : Reproduced in facsimile from the unique manuscript, British Museum (1959) — Einführung — 31 Exemplare
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- University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
University of Oxford (Merton College)
Otago Boys' High School, Dunedin, New Zealand - Berufe
- Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
Professor of English Language, University of Glasgow (1949-1959) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Rhodes Scholar
MBE (1945)
Sir Israel Gollancz Prize (1973)
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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.… (mehr)