Chrétien would be so chagrinned. Himself profoundly antipathetic towards adulterous love, he introduced the world to the most popular adulterous couple of all time, surpassing even his unfavorite, the Tristan/Iseut juggernaut, which he alternately bashed and deconstructed in Cligés.To be fair, I wou...
This is Chrétien's fix-it fic for the story of Tristan and Iseut, a story he loathes because he is so squicked by adultery. Cligès, like Tristan, falls in love with his uncle's intended (and doesn't even have the excuse of a love potion to proffer for it). However, unlike the hapless King Mark, Cli...
This is a great translation, readable and very funny.
Verse translations are the best! Ridiculously more difficult, of course, but oh so worth it when they're done well.
I only read The Knight of the Cart, and I read it for class, so it went by awfully fast, but it's a great deal of fun. Someday I'll read the whole book for real.
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