Retold out of the old romances, this collection of Arthurian tales endeavors to make each adventure--"The Quest for the Round Table, " "The First Quest of Sir Lancelot, " "How the Holy Grail Came to Camelot, " and so forth--part of a fixed pattern that effectively presents the whole story, as it does in Le Morte D'Arthur, but in a way less intimidating to young readers. (All Ages)

Jesse Lopez

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Chrétien de Troyes ,  Béroul ,  Robert de Boron ,  Gottfried von Straßburg ,  Geoffrey of Monmouth ,  The Mabinogion ,  Wolfram von Eschenbach , and most of all, the massive 13th-century  Lancelot-Grail  Vulgate cycle.  The  Matter of Britain  is primarily made up of new versions of older stories, which in turn are retellings of even older legends, dating as far back as the songs of the troubadours. Lancelyn Green — along with T. H. White — is a worthy successor of Thomas Malory. He compiled these novels of the Round Table together in his all-encompassing rendition,  Le Morte d'Arthur . For those curious about modern interpretations of these stories, I would recommend listening to Richard Wagner’s  Tristan und Isolde  and  Parsifal . I’d also suggest John Boorman’s film  Excalibur , which proceeds by condensations and displacements of characters and plotlines but is still a masterpiece. I do not know if the TV shows  Camelot  or  Merlin  are any good — anyone?  Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations in this edition of  King Arthur  are lovely Indian ink pictures, in a style that reminds me of Gustav Klimt.

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