HAVELOK C

For over seventy years there has been no new English edition of the lively and vigorously-written Middle English verse romance of Hauelok despite the need for a text to meet modern standards of editing. In this new and thorough edition of the poem. Professor Smithers has done much toelucidate the text providing a detailed glossary textual notes and an introduction that contains an account of the main manuscript and of the Cambridge fragments of the relations of Hauelok to the other main versions of the story and of the language the sources the date of composition. Inaddition Smithers supplies a full commentary which goes well beyond those of previous editions in range scale and detail.