Lancelot: the Knight of the Cart
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780231058629 (0231058624)
Publish date: May 1st 1984
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Medieval,
Poetry,
Roman,
France,
French Literature,
Mythology,
Arthurian
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...