The Dance of death

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Autres auteurs : Lydgate John (Auteur), Block Florence Warren (Éditeur scientifique), White Beatrice (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The Dance of death / edited from mss. Ellesmere 26/A.13 and B. M. Lansdowne 699, collated with the other extant mss. by Florence Warren; with introduction, notes, etc. by Beatrice White
Publié : London : Published for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press , 1931
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxxi-118 p.)
Collection : Early English Text Society. Original series ; 181
Œuvre : Les simulacres et historiees faces de la mort
Documents associés : Reproduit comme: The Dance of death
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Notes : Lydgate's free translation of a French original, which, according to the opening and closing stanzas of his poem, was painted upon the wall at the church of SS. Innocents in Paris. First printed by Tottel at the end of his edition of Lydgate's Fall of princes in 1554
In this edition the texts of the two manuscripts giving different versions are printed on opposite pages
Appendices: I. French text of the Dance of death [from Brit. mus. Add. 38858]--II. Mural paintings of the 'Danse macabre.'--III. The word 'macabre.'--IV. The degeneration of the 'Danse macabre.'--V. English printed versions of the Dance of death
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