Description
In this verse translation of Chr tien de Troyes's Lancelot, Ruth Harwood Cline revives the original story of the immortal love affair between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, a tale that has spawned interpretations ranging from Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur to Lerner and Lowe's Camelot.
By remaining faithful to Chr tien's highly structured form, Cline preserves the pace, the pungency of proverbial expressions, and the work's poetical devices and word play in translating this archetypal tale of courtly love from Old French into modern English. Cline's introduction--containing a description of Arthur in history and literature, a discussion of courtly love, and an account of the continuations of the story of Lancelot and Guinevere--makes Lancelot an ideal classroom text.Author: Chrétien de Troyes
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 05/01/1990
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.03w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780820312132
ISBN10: 0820312134
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | General
About the Author
CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES (1135?-1191?) was a French poet and trouvère. He is widely regarded as the creator of the literary genre known as the Arthurian romance, and the originator of the heroic medieval character Lancelot.