The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here. Topics range from early Celtic sources and analogues of Arthurian plots to popular interest in King Arthur in sixteenth-century London, from the thirteenth-century French prose 'Mort Artu' to Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King'. It includes discussion of shapeshifters and loathly ladies, attitudes to treason, royal deaths and funerals in the fifteenth century and the nineteenth, late medieval Scottish politics and early modern chivalry.
Author(s): Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson (eds.)
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 212
City: Cambridge
General Editors’ Foreword vii
List of contributors ix
I. Commemoration in 'La Mort le roi Artu' / Emma Campbell 1
II. '...if indeed I go': Arthur’s Uncertain End in Malory and Tennyson / Andrew Lynch 19
III. The Intruder at the Feast: Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Insular Romance / Aisling Byrne 33
IV. What Women Really Want: The Genesis of Chaucer’s 'Wife of Bath’s Tale' / P. J. C. Field 59
V. Monstrous Appetite and Belly Laughs: A Reconsideration of the Humour in 'The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell' / Sue Niebrzydowski 87
VI. Speaking (of) Treason in Malory’s 'Morte Darthur' / Megan G. Leitch 103
VII. 'Lancelot of the Laik': A Scottish Mirror for Princes / Karen D. Robinson 135
VIII. Prince Arthur’s Archers: Innovative Nostalgia in Early Modern Popular Chivalry / Kenneth Hodges 179
