Lancelot : The Knight of the Cart
Lancelot : The Knight of the Cart
- ISBN 13:
9780300071214
- ISBN 10:
0300071213
- Format: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 10/20/1997
- Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary
Lancelot tells of the adulterous relationship between the knight and his mistress, Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur. Thematically this poem differs from Chretien's other romances - Lancelot and Guinevere's love is a serious crime against their king, Lancelot casts aside his knightly ideals and reputation for the sake of his beloved, and Arthur is endowed with a weaker personality.
Raffel has created an original three-stress metric verse form that captures Chretien's swift-paced narrative and lively, sparkling Old French. A consummate translator, Raffel enables the modern reader and the reader who is unfamiliar with French to appreciate the beauty of Chretien's original.