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Bevis of Hampton, a popular verse romance from the late 13th or early 14th cent. in 4,620 lines, based on a 12th-cent. Anglo-Norman chanson de geste entitled Beuves de Hanstone.

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Bevis of Hampton , English metrical romance of the early 14th cent. that also appears in Anglo-Norman, French, Italian, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Slavonic versions. Although its adventures are made up of such stock motifs as murder, mistaken identity, and revenge, the tale is nevertheless notable for its broad humor.

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	Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review) Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/2009; 564 words ; Sir Bevis of Hampton in Literary Tradition, ed. Jennifer...literary interpretation of the English Sir Bevis of Hampton, covering topics which range from...twin sons she bears to her husband Bevis), to 'gender, virtue and wisdom...
	On derivational suffixes in three Late Middle English romances: Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, and Sultan of Babylon.(LINGUISTICS) Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...genre based on a French model. The paper investigates whether this was the case in the texts of Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, and Sowdon of Babylon, which represent the East Midland dialect in Late Middle English. 1. Aims The present study...
	Christopher Sanders, ed. Bevers saga.(Book Review) Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...clxxiv + 399. The romantic tale of Bevis of Hampton clearly enjoyed considerable popularity...scholarly edition of Bevers saga (or Bevis saga, as it is also known) had...Icelandic and Faeroese versions of the Bevis story considered mainly for the light...
	King, Andrew. The Faerie Queene and Middle English Romance: The Matter of Just Memory.(Book review) Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...willing to overlook, such as King Horn, Havelok, Sir Bevis, Guy of Warwick and the "Eustace-Constance-Florence...consideration of Spenser's use of the dragon from Bevis of Hampton in creating his own dragon at the end of Book I of The...
	Romance Reading on the Book: Essays on Medieval Narrative presented to Maldwyn Mills. Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...English romances and defended them with gusto. As Jennifer Fellows shows in tracing the early printed editions of Sir Bevis of Hampton, there is a long history of mocking the romances as frivolous or artistically inept. It is only comparatively recently...
	Paris un Wiene: Ein jiddischer Stanzenroman des 16. Jahrhunderts von (order aus dem Umkreis von) Elia Levita. Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...acknowledging the similarities between Paris un Wiene and Elia's Bovobuch (1541) (that is, Bovo d'Antona, Bevis of Hampton; Elia's text was edited in facsimile by Judah A. Joffe, Poetishe shafungen in Yidish, Elye Boher, Vol. I...
	Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance: Rethinking Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear.(Book review) Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...manhood to her though brave deeds. There are source studies: Hamlet is compared with the Anglo-Norman romance Bevis of Hampton, and Robert Greene's play of Orlando furioso identified as a source for Othello. King Lear is read as a drama...
	`The Faerie Queene' and Middle English Romance: The Matter of Just Memory. (Reviews). Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...English romance: acts of memory required for the reconstruction of social and sovereign identity in texts such as Bevis of Hampton; the intervention of God in human affairs in King Horn; the local and national historical vestiges that make a view...
	Sian Echard. Printing the Middle Ages.(Book review) Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...vii), and the writers or written works she includes are, primarily, Beowulf, Piers Plowman, Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Jean Froissart. The final chapter--"The Ghost in the Machine" (more than...
	The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays.(Book review) Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...theme of Enlightenment-inspired medievalism and protonationalism with a study of legendary heroes Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary circles, while articles by Helen Phillips, John Marshall, and...