Texts
Six Middle English Verse Romances (ed.) M. Mills
(Everyman) repr. 1983
Middle English Verse Romances. (ed.) D. Sands
(Exeter Medieval Texts) repr. 1988
French and Hale: Medieval Metrical Romance (2
vols) (1930)
AV.C. Schmidt and N.Jacobs: Middle English Verse
Romances
(1980) 2 vols.
Read at least: Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Sir Gowther, Sir Degaré, Emaré, The Squire of Low Degree and Havelok.
Reading
W. Barron: English Medieval Romance (Longman
1987)
P. Boitani: English Medieval Narrative in the 13th
and 14th Centuries ch. 3. (Cambridge,1986)
**Helen Cooper, The
English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of
Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare
(OUP, 2004)
Roger Dalrymple, Language and Piety
in Middle English Romance (Cambridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2001)
Rosalind Field, ed. Tradition and Transformation in Medieval
Romance (Cambridge, 1999)
Philippa Hardman, ed., The Matter of
Identity in Medieval Romance (Woodbridge, 2002)