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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur is the basic source of our view of Lancelot, Arthur, and Gawain, of the Grail legend and of the Round Table. Although he did not invent most of his material, Malory abridged the...
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From: Essays in Medieval Studies[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Armstrong contends that a new view of the medieval reading public is both reflected and constructed in Caxton’s version of Sir Thomas Malory’s text. Armstrong contrasts the view...
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From: Sir Thomas Malory: Views and Re-Views[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Morgan re-examines structural issues debated by various critics regarding the last two chapters of Le Morte Darthur.] In the Morte Darthur's two final chapters, its tragic...
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From: Le Morte Darthur: Studies on the Sources[Lang was one of Great Britain's preeminent men of letters during the closing decades of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best remembered as the editor of the “Color Fairy Books,” a twelve-volume series of fairy...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs the recent volume King Arthur in America by Alan and Barbara Tepa Lupack attests, William Faulkner used the Arthurian legend to articulate many of the major themes and motifs in his works. The Lupacks draw on...
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From:Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMalory's Le Morte d'Arthur figures ability as the normative center of the chivalric code; therefore, characters with disabilities are often barred from full participation in the chivalric community, particularly in the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Alfred, Lord Tennyson's fascination with the Arthurian cycle of Malory was life-long. The first draft of ``Morte d'Arthur[r],'' eventually published in 1842, dates from the end of 1833 when he heard the news of Arthur...
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From: Children's Literature Association Quarterly[(essay date summer 2007) In the following essay, Howey compares the depiction of the Arthurian story of Elaine of Astolat in the short story "Launcelot's Tower" by Marjorie Richardson to a similar scene found in L. M....
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 38) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The article demonstrates the performative character of chivalric culture portrayed in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. I refrain, however, from the investigation of all explicit forms of theatricality, in...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 104, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough Sir Thomas Malory says that Queen Guinevere "was a trew lover, and therefor she had a good ende," (1) many critics have found her "jealous, unreasonable, possessive, and headstrong." (2) The critics' hostility...
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From: La Mort d'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table[The following excerpt is from the unsigned preface of the 1634 edition of the Morte Darthur, a version based on Caxton's 1485 edition and printed by William Stansby for Jacob Bloome Here, the critic, commonly believed...
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From: Le Morte Darthur: The Seventh and Eighth Tales[(essay date 1978) In the following excerpt, Field provides an overview of Malory's Morte Darthur, focusing on issues of authorship, structural unity, and sources.] Sir Thomas Malory Although Sir Thomas Malory lived...
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From: Chivalric Literature: Essays on Relations between Literature and Life in the Later Middle Ages[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Annunziata discusses the origin of the pas d’armes, the late medieval ritual of ceremonial battle, arguing that historical examples were typically based upon literary models,...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe commonly suggested emendations to a line in Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte Darthur' do not take into account Toshiyuki Takamiya's recent work concerning the reading of the scribe's writing, showing translations of st to...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMiddle English second person pronouns thou andyou (T/V) are considered to be among the means employed by medieval speakers to express their attitudes towards each other. Along with face-threatening acts, the use of these...
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From: The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity of Malory's Morte Darthur[(essay date 1965) In the following essay, Moorman contends that the three main plots in Malory's Morte Darthur are interconnected, thus providing a sense of unity to a text based on a variety of disparate sources.]...
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From: Modern Philology[In the following essay, Parry discusses narrative structure in Malory's work.] Thomas Malory's reading of his sources in Le Morte D'Arthur leads him to locate Arthur's final resting place, the legendary Avalon, in two...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 110, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPrinting Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur in 1485, William Caxton made a deliberate decision to sell it to his public as "the ... hystorye of the grete conquerour and excellent kyng, kyng Arthur ..." (1) Evidently, by...
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From: Studies in Philology[In the following essay, Kelly explores the theme of penitence in Malory's “Tale of the Death of King Arthur.”] In Malory's “Tale of the Death of Arthur,” Lancelot, as he rescues Guenevere from being burnt at the...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRegional borders have recently received crucial critical attention as hyphenated, tenuous spaces in Arthurian literature, galvanizing interest in localized identities and regional responses to conquering hegemonic...