Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780300071207 (0300071205)
Publish date: October 20th 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 254
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...