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By Derek S Brewer (Editor), Jonathan Gibson (Editor), A C Spearing (Contribution by), A. S. G. Edwards (Contribution by), Anne Rooney (Contribution by), Barry A Windeatt (Contribution by), David Aers (Contribution by), David J. Williams (Contribution by), David Williams (Contribution by), Derek Pearsall (Contribution by), Derek S Brewer (Contribution by), Elisabeth Brewer (Contribution by), Felicity Riddy (Contribution by), Gillian E Rogers (Contribution by), Helen Cooper (Contribution by), Hoyt N Duggan (Contribution by), Jane Gilbert (Contribution by), Linda Brosnan (Contribution by), M W Thompson (Contribution by), Malcolm Andrew (Contribution by), Michael Lacy (Contribution by), Michael Thompson (Contribution by), Nicholas Watson (Contribution by), Nick Davis (Contribution by), Priscilla Martin (Contribution by), Ralph W V Elliott (Contribution by), Richard G. Newhauser (Contribution by)

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‘Provides an excellent onevolume guide to the works of the anonymous Gawainpoet.' CHOICE

The essays collected here on the GawainPoet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both information and original analysis. Topics includetheories of authorship; the historical and social background to the poems, with individual sections on particularly important features within them; gender roles in the poems; the manuscript itself;...