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Lancelot
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Lancelot, blank‐verse dramatic narrative by
E.A. Robinson, published in 1920. It belongs with
Merlin and
Tristram in the author's Arthurian trilogy.
On the eve of Lancelot's departure from Camelot on his pilgrimage, his liaison with Queen Guinevere has ended in suspicion and his own conscience‐stricken resumption of his quest after “the Light.” King Arthur, finally aware of his queen's infidelity, orders her burned at the stake. Lancelot and his friends rescue Guinevere, and the lovers flee to Joyous Gard, where they remain for six months, during the siege that Gawaine persuades Arthur to wage. At last Lancelot sees the futility of the slaughter, and on orders from Rome returns Guinevere to Camelot. Still in banishment, he journeys to France to participate in the war which destroys Arthur's rule. Later he returns to Camelot, attends the deathbed of the penitent Gawaine, and visits Guinevere's convent, but she refuses to go to France with him.
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The Double Life of Malory's Lancelot du Lake
Magazine article from: Arthuriana; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Lancelot, Malory's paragon of chivalry, harbors...Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur,1 Sir Lancelot du Lake, the best knight in the world...psychological acuity, carefully traces Lancelot's fragmented, complex character through...
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Lancelot's Wives
Magazine article from: Arthuriana; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...sixteenth-century potboiler, Lancelot takes the role not of adulterous...of suitor and husband. (HC) 'Lancelot's wives' sounds like a contradiction...tradition of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Lancelot without adultery would seem to be...
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Lancelot: Der mittelhochdeutsche Roman im europaischen Kontext.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Lancelot: Der mittelhochdeutsche Roman im europaischen...This collection of essays on the prose Lancelot tradition has a lot to tackle: a voluminous...Add to this the reception of the prose Lancelot in the Low Countries--one fragmentary...
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The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations...contains many important essays on the French Lancelot-Grail cycle and its reception. The...thoroughly within a useful introduction to Lancelot-Grail scholarship. The majority of...
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Liebe und Herrschaft: Studien zum altfranzosischen und mittelhochdeutschen Prosa-Lancelot.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...altfranzosischen und mittelhochdeutschen Prosa-Lancelot, Hermaea NS 78 (Tubingen: Niemeyer...Old French and Middle High German Prose Lancelot marks a relatively new trend in the development...traditionally caused controversy for the Prose Lancelot; critics have variously seen the narrative...
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Lancelot und der Gral, vols I and II (=Prosalancelot, vols III and IV).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Lancelot und der Gral, vols I and II (=Prosalancelot...Whereas the first two volumes were devoted to Lancelot and Guinevere, those under review shift the emphasis to Lancelot and the Grail. The basis of the German text is the...
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Das grobe Herz der Erzahlung. Studien zu Narration und Interdiskursivitat im 'Prosa-Lancelot.'(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Narration und Interdiskursivitat im 'Prosa-Lancelot'. By MICHAEL WALTENBERGER. (Mikrokosmos...aesthetic innovation of the great Prose Lancelot trilogy cannot be fully appreciated through...interdiscursive potential of the Prose Lancelot. The stimulus for this original and...
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Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation
Magazine article from: Arthuriana; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Five Interpolated Romances from the Lancelot Compilation. KATTY DE BUNDEL and GEERT...often Arthurian texts, known as the Lancelot Compilation, which would then have held...and translating the entire Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation. The scope of such an enterprise...
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Rittertum zwischen Minne und Gral; Untersuchungen zum mittelhochdeutschen `Prosa-Lancelot'.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Untersuchungen zum mittelbochdeutschen `Prosa-Lancelot', Mikrokosmos 42 (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin...and balanced interpretation of the entire Prose Lancelot (comprising the Lancelot proper, the Gral-Queste, and the Tod des Konig...
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Give the dog a clone; CUTE PUPPY LANCELOT IS COPY OF DEAD LABRADOR.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 1/29/2009; 589 words
; ...ANTON ANTONOWICZ US CORRESPONDENT THIS is Lancelot Encore... one of the first cloned...Nina Otto loved their last pet Labrador Lancelot so much they decided to freeze some of...pounds 108,000 and had him cloned. Lancelot Encore was created in South Korea 10...
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Lancelot
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Lancelot In the medieval legends about King Arthur of Britain and his knights, Lancelot is the greatest knight of all. In time, however, Lancelot's love for Guinevere, the king's wife, leads him to betray his king and sets in motion the...
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Lancelot du Lake, Sir
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Lancelot du Lake, Sir, a ballad included in Percy's Reliques , recounting the adventure of Lancelot with Tarquin. Falstaff sings a snatch from this ballad in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV ( ii . iv).
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Andrewes, Lancelot
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Andrewes, Lancelot (1555–1626). Anglican bishop . In 1601 he became Dean...the finest English prose of their time, of any time’ ( For Lancelot Andrewes ): ‘He takes a word and derives a world from it...
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Lancelot Andrewes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lancelot Andrewes , 1555-1626, Anglican divine, bishop of Chichester (1605), Ely (1609), and Winchester (1619). One of the...
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Lancelot of the Lake
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Lancelot of the Lake In Arthurian legend, the father of Galahad and one of the most famous knights; he is portrayed as the lover of Guinevere , wife of King Arthur .
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