Early accounts of Arthur, chronicles, and historical literature -- Early references to Arthur -- Arthur in Welsh literature -- Saints' lives -- Geoffrey of Monmouth and his influence -- Other Latin chronicles -- The continuing chronicle tradition in England and Scotland -- Arthur's death and survival -- Historical verse -- Historical drama -- Historical novels -- The romance tradition -- Chretien de Troyes and the beginnings of the romance tradition -- The influence of Chretien de Troyes -- Lancelot and Guinevere -- Romances with non-traditional heroes -- Lanval and Launfal -- Chastity tests -- Ballads -- Malory, his influence, and the continuing romance tradition -- Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur -- From Malory to Tennyson -- Lady of Shalott / Elaine of Astolat -- Other Victorian poets -- Parodies and criticisms of Tennyson -- Arthurian youth groups and their influence -- Illustrating Malory and Tennyson -- The continuing romance tradition in poetry -- The continuing romance tradition in drama, music, and film -- The continuing romance tradition in fiction -- The holy grail -- Chretien de Troyes's Perceval and its continuations and translations -- Robert de Boron and the prose adaptations of his work -- Perlesvaus -- Peredur and Sir Perceval of Galles -- Tyolet and related tales -- Wolfram von Eschenbach and his influence -- The grail in the vulgate (or Lancelot-Grail) and the post-vulgate cycles and Henry Lovelich's translation -- Joseph of Arimathea -- The grail from Malory to Victorian England -- American interpretations of the grail -- Jessie Weston and T.S. Eliot -- Twentieth-century British interpretations of the grail -- The grail in popular culture -- Gawain -- Gawain romances other than English -- English Gawain romances -- Reworkings of Sir Gawain and the green knight -- The loathly lady -- The fair unknown -- Gawain and his family in later literature -- Merlin -- The origins of Merlin -- Prophecies of Merlin -- Merlin in medieval romance -- Tom Thumb -- Merlin in drama -- Merlin in modern poetry -- Merlin in modern fiction -- Merlin in popular culture -- Tristan and Isolt -- Tristan in Welsh literature -- The common and courtly versions of the Tristan story -- The Prose Tristan and its influence -- Palamedes -- Tristan and Isolt in the Victorian age -- Tristan plays -- The Tristan legend in twentieth-century verse -- Tristan and Isolt in fiction -- Tristan and Isolt in film -- Afterword -- Arthurian people, places, and things.
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