Friday, August 3, 2018

Week Six

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.”
Film:  Young Goodman Brown
Film: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus







English Sources



Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain (Historia regum Britanniae)  (12th century, 1135-39)

Wace of Jersey

Layamon

Tristan and Iseult                                                         (12th century)

            Anglo-Norman, Inspired by Keltic Legend:

                        Deirdre and Naoise

                        Diarmuid Ua Duibhue

                        Grainne

The Pearl Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight       (14th century)



French Sources



Chrétien de Troyes Perceval (Grail story)  (12th century)

“a Group of Cistercian Monks”(?), Vulgate Cycle       (1210-1230)

            Prose Lancelot

Robert de Boron, Merlin (13th century)

“Post-Vulgate Grail Romance” (combining Arthurian Romance with the Tristan Romance)

(Mallory’s chief sources were these French romances)



Welsh Sources



Gildas, De excidio et conquest Britanniae, Fall and  Conquest of Britain        (mid-6th century)

Nennius, Historia Brittonum, History of the Britons (9th century)

Annales Cambriae, Cabbrian Annals (late 9th century)

The Mabinogion   (12th- 13thcenturies, first English version by Charlotte Guest, 1838-49);

Culhwch and Olwen (12th century)



“Modern” versions and related stories



Thomas Mallory, Le Morte Darthur   (late 15th century)

Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin  (1829)

Sources: The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales  (chiefly in Welsh), Cambro-Briton (periodical ca. 1819); The Mabinogion (first English version by Charlotte Guest, 1838-49); Taliesin (first English version by Nash, 1858).

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King       (1842, 1859, 1888)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shallot”           (1832, 1842)

T. H. White, The Once and Future King                      (1958)

Marion Zimmerman Bradley, The Mists of Avalon       (1982)



Themes:

Religion
Myth and Religion
History
Sociology
Psychology
Fantasy(?)
Nostalgia




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