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''Sir Eglamour of Artois'' is a Middle English verse romance that was written sometime around 1350.〔Hudson, Harriet. 1996. ''Four Middle English Romances''. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications.〕 It is a narrative poem of about 1300 lines, a tail-rhyme romance that was quite popular in its day, judging from the number of copies that have survived – four manuscripts from the 15th century or earlier and a manuscript and five printed editions from the 16th century. The poem tells a story that is constructed from a large number of elements found in other medieval romances and modern scholarly opinion has been critical of it because of this, describing it as unimaginative and of poor quality.〔Tigges, Wim. 1988. ''Sir Eglamour: the knight who could not say no.'' Neophilologus, 72, pp 107–115.〕 Medieval romance as a genre, however, concerns the reworking of "the archetypal images of romance"〔Brewer, Derek. 1983.''History of Literature Series: English Gothic Literature'' 5. ''Adventure and love:romances in rhyme'', p 72. Schocken Books, New York.〕 and if this poem is viewed from a 15th-century perspective as well as from a modern standpoint〔Tigges, Wim. 1988. ''Sir Eglamour: the knight who could not say no.'' Neophilologus, 72, pp 107–115.〕 – and it was obviously once very popular, even being adapted into a play in 1444 – one might find a "romance () is carefully structured, the action highly unified, the narration lively."〔Hudson, Harriet. 1996. ''Four Middle English Romances''. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications.〕 The action of the story involves the hero fighting with a giant who is fifty feet tall, a ferocious boar and a dragon. His son is carried off as a baby by a griffin. The mother of his son, like Emaré and Geoffrey Chaucer's heroine Constance, is carried in an open boat to a distant land. There are scenes of non-recognition between the principal characters and a threat of incest; but after all these vicissitudes, father, son and mother are reunited at the end.〔Hudson, Harriet. 1996. ''Four Middle English Romances''. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications.〕 ==Manuscripts== The story of ''Sir Eglamour of Artois'' was written in around 1350 and is found in six manuscript versions, four of them dating to the 15th century or earlier, one to the 16th century and one, the Percy Folio, to the seventeenth. It is also found in five 16th century printed versions. In one of the manuscripts, British Museum Egerton 2862 (c. 1400), only a fragment of the story survives:〔Hudson, Harriet. 1996.〕 A complete or nearly complete version of ''Sir Eglamour of Artois'' is found in these manuscripts:〔Hudson, Harriet. 1996.〕 *Lincoln Cathedral MS 91, the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript (c. 1440) *Cambridge University Library Ff. 2.38 (c. 1460) *British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ii (second half of the 15th century) *British Library MS Douce 261 (1564) *British Museum Additional 27879, the Percy Folio (c. 1650) Lincoln Cathedral MS 91, produced by Robert Thornton, preserves the Arthurian romance ''Sir Perceval of Galles'' and the popular romance ''Sir Isumbras''. In Cotton Caligula A.ii is found the tale of ''Emaré''. Like many other medieval English romances,〔Mills, Maldwyn. 1973, ''Six Middle English Romances''. J M Dent and Sons Limited, Everyman’s Library.〕 ''Sir Eglamour of Artois'' is written in tail-rhyme verse; although it is somewhat irregular, written mostly in stanzas of the traditional twelve lines, rhyming ''aabccbddbeeb'', although sometimes a stanza occurs of six or nine lines, sometimes of fifteen or more. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir Eglamour of Artois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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