The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, an essay on the metrical form, the translator's note, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations to assist readers in the study of this canonical Arthurian romance.
"Contexts" presents two French tales of Sir Gawain and a passage from the Alliterative Morte Arthure, also translated by Marie Borroff, as well as three selections from the original Middle English poem.
"Criticism" collects ten interpretive essays on the poem's central themes. Contributors include Alain Renoir, Marie Borroff, J. A. Burrow, A. Kent Hieatt, W. A. Davenport, Ralph Hanna III, Lynn Staley Johnson, Jonathan Nicholls, Geraldine Heng, and Leo Carruthers.
A Chronology of important historical and literary dates and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
- ISBN10 0393930254
- ISBN13 9780393930252
- Publish Date 12 January 2010 (first published 17 April 1967)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 19 September 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Edition Critical edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English