The Vitality of the Arthurian Legend: A SymposiumMette Pors Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 16-17 November 1987. |
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Page 95
... Tragedy of Tra- gedies ( 1731 ) with its debunking of an Arthurian court whose strongest sup- port is the little knight Tom Thumb . The ballads of Tom Thumb from which Fielding took his cue were , of course , a very popular way of ...
... Tragedy of Tra- gedies ( 1731 ) with its debunking of an Arthurian court whose strongest sup- port is the little knight Tom Thumb . The ballads of Tom Thumb from which Fielding took his cue were , of course , a very popular way of ...
Page 99
... Tragedy of Tragedies ( 1731 ) and its devastating attack on the bombastic style and the idealized worlds of the con- temporary heroic drama ; the other originating in exactly such a drama , the famous King Arthur ( 1691 ) , written by ...
... Tragedy of Tragedies ( 1731 ) and its devastating attack on the bombastic style and the idealized worlds of the con- temporary heroic drama ; the other originating in exactly such a drama , the famous King Arthur ( 1691 ) , written by ...
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... Tragedy , in Thelwall's Tristan , or in some ballads does one sense a definition of freedom in private terms like being able to criticize the pomp and circumstance of the mighty , or to draw attention to the gaps between rhetoric and ...
... Tragedy , in Thelwall's Tristan , or in some ballads does one sense a definition of freedom in private terms like being able to criticize the pomp and circumstance of the mighty , or to draw attention to the gaps between rhetoric and ...
Contents
An Introduction to the Story of Arthur | 13 |
The Historical Origins of the Arthurian Legend | 25 |
Recent Progress | 45 |
Copyright | |
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