The legend of Guy of Warwick. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Velma Bourgeois Richmond.
• Authors: Richmond, Velma Bourgeois
• Contents: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE ANTECEDENTS FOR GUY'S LEGEND -- 1. The Norman World -- 2. Anglo-Saxon Athelstan -- 3. William of Malmesbury -- 4. An Anglo-Norman Legend -- 5. William Marshall -- 6. Saint Alexis -- 7. William of Orange -- 8. Chr&ien de Troyes -- CHAPTER TWO AN ANGLO-NORMAN HERO: THE FIRST GUY OF WARWICK -- CHAPTER THREE GUY: A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH HERO -- 1. Middle English Romance in Verse -- 2. Speculum Gy de Warewyke -- 3. Gesta Romanorum -- 4. Chronicles -- Peter Langtoft, Gerard of Cornwall -- Liber Regum Anglie, Henry Knighton -- 5. Le Rommant de Guy de Warwik et de Herolt d'Ardenne -- 6. Pictorial Representations Auchinleck MS, Langtoft's Chronicle, Taymouth Hours, Smithfield Decretals, Misericords and Mazer -- CHAPTER FOUR LATE MEDIEVAL ADAPTATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL REPUTE -- 1. Fifteenth-century Middle English Romance -- 2. Richard de Beauchamp: Living Guy's Legend -- Beauchamp (Warwick) Pageants -- Guy's Statue & Beauchamp Tomb -- Manuscript Illumination -- 3. John Lydgate's Guy of Warwick -- 4. The Rous Rolls -- 5. Chronicles of Thomas Rudbome and John Hardyng -- 6. Guy &. Colebrande -- 7. Gydo und Thyrsus -- 8. A Celtic Guy of Warwick -- 9. Tirant lo Blanc -- CHAPTER FIVE RENAISSANCE DIVERSITY -- 1. The First Printed English Version -- 2. Sixteenth-century printed Le Rommant (1525 and 1550) -- 3. Jean Louvet's mystere (1537) -- 4. Renaissance Hero in History and Heraldry -- John Leland's Itinerary (1535-43), John Caius Robert Fabyan and Grafton's Chronicle (1516-59) -- Holinshed's Chronicle (1578) -- A Jesuit Historia Anglic um Ecclesiastica (1622) -- William Camden's Britain (1586-1610) -- John Speede Map (1610), Dudley's "Booke of Petegree" -- Descent of the House of Warwick (later 16C) -- 5. One of the Nine Worthies. Richard Lloyd, A brief discourse of . . the Nine Worthies (1584) -- 6. "Was ever knight"- Guy as Ballad Hero (1591/2) -- 7. Richard Johnson, The Seven Champions of Christendom (1596-1616) -- 8. Guy on the English Stage -- The Tragical History (16187/1661) -- 9. Drayton's Poly-Olbion (1598/1613) -- 10. John Lane, "Corrected Histone of Guy Earle of Warwick" (1621) -- 11. Samuel Rowlands' Famous History (1632?) -- 12. Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656) -- CHAPTER SIX PENNY HISTORIES AND EIGHTEENTHCENTURY ANTIQUARIANS -- 1. Humphrey Crouch, The Heroick History (1655) -- 2. Samuel Smithson, The Famous History of Guy Earlof Warwick (c.1680) -- 3. Abridgementsof Smithson's Chapbook -- 4. John Shurley, The Renowned History (1681) -- Bates' Abridgement, The Historyof the Famous Exploits -- 5. George Conyers, Famous History (1690s) -- 6. A Remarkable Account of Guy (1792) -- 7. "G. L., " The Noble and Renowned History (1706-19 C) -- 8. Abridgementsof G. L.'s Version -- 9. Antiquarians and Literary Historians -- Camden's Magna Britannia Revised -- Pegge's Memoir on the Story of Guy Earl of Warwick (1767/83) -- Chivalry as Philosophical Principle: Hurd, Hume, Burke -- Literary Historians: Warton, Ritson, Reeve, Ellis -- CHAPTER SEVEN A STORY FOR CHILDREN, SATIRISTS, AND VISITORS TO WARWICK -- 1. Nursery Books (1780s) -- 2. Guy in 1808: True History and Romantic Love -- Mr. Somers History -- A. St. John, Tales of Former Times -- 3. Guy's Exploits in America -- The Wonderful Exploit (1817/1830) Laurence Lovechild, Guy of Warwick (c.l850/afterl850) Peter Parley -- 4. Mid- and Late-Nineteenth-Century Literature for Children -- Felix Summerly and Ambrose Merton (c.1843) -- Merry Tales for Little Folks (c.1850) -- Cox, Popular Romances of the Middle Ages (1871) / Mabie, Legends that Every Child Should Know (1906) Sidney Lanier, The Boy's Percy (1882) -- 5. A Romance for Adults: Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century Ellis, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (1802/48), Scholarly Editions (1840, 1875-91) -- A. R. Hope-Moncrieff, Stories of Old Renown (1883) / Romance and Legend of Chivalry (1919) -- John Ashton, Romances of Chivalry (1887) -- 6. Satiric Retellings o f Guy's Legend -- Guy's Porridge Pot and The Dun Cow (1808/9) -- Pantomime (1841), Sir Guy de Guy (1854) -- Grace Greenwood, Merrie England (1855/1908) -- Dr. Doran, Knights and Their Days (1856) -- 7. Local Warwickshire Hero -- An Historical and Descriptive Account (1815/17) -- Warwick Castle: A Poem (1846) -- Pickering & Courthope, Rous Roll (1845/59) -- Histories o f Noble Br itish Families (1846) -- J. Tom Burgess, Historic Warwickshire (1876/93) -- Cooke's Guides and Others -- CHAPTER EIGHT APOTHEOSIS AND DECLINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 1. Warwick Castle and Its Earls (1903) Warwick Pageant of 1906 -- 2. G.H. Gerould, Sir Guy of Warwick (1905/12) -- 3. H.E. Marshall, Stories of Guy of Warwick (1906) -- 4. Collections o f Tales and Romances -- Andrew Lang, The Red Romance Book (1905) -- E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, Britain Long Ago (1906)/ Tales of Early England (1909-1926) -- F. J. Harvey Darton, A Wonder Book of Old Romance (1907) -- Joyce Pollard, Stories from Old English Romance (1912) -- 5. Between the Wars -- A Schooltext in the Twenties Dorothy Margaret Stuart, The Book of Chivalry and Romance (1933) -- 6. Guy for the Children after World War II -- Kathleen Fidler, True Tales o f Castles (1969) -- Jessica Claridge, Folk Tales, Myths and Legends (1971) -- Margaret Hodges, Knight Prisoner (1976) -- 7. Twentieth-century Guidebooks -- 8. A Hero o f Folktale in the Late Twentieth Century -- Eric Swift, Folk Tales of the East Midlands (1954) -- Roy Palmer, The Folklore o f Warwickshire (1976) -- Merlin Price, Folktales & Legends of Warwickshire (1982) -- Guy in Restaurant and Public House
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 820.9351; Guy of Warwick (Legendary character); Guy of Warwick (Legenary character) -- Romances -- History and criticism; Romances, English -- Adaptations -- History and criticism; Romances, English -- History and criticism; English literature -- French influences; Knights and knighthood in literature; Warwick (England) -- In literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000525571
• Related ISBNs: 9781000524116; 9781003250029
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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