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