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Excalibur (1981) R. Forged by a god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a king. A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
1 giorno fa · Chrétien de Troyes, a French poet, and Sir Thomas Malory, the author of “Le Morte d’Arthur,” further cemented Avalon’s legendary status in their respective retellings of the Arthurian tales. Each recounting adds a layer of intricacy and wonder to Avalon’s mythos, painting it as a timeless and utopian realm.
5 giorni fa · In the Mort Artu (and Le Morte d'Arthur), when Lancelot is caught in his affair with Guinevere, Hector stands by his half-brother and leaves court with him. He becomes one of the top leaders of Lancelot's faction, participating in the battle to rescue the queen at her would-be execution and the subsequent defence of Lancelot's castle Joyous Guard .
5 giorni fa · Lewin's 'fastidious evocation of fin-de-siècle aestheticism' is superb. It has that certain je ne sais quoi.Oscar Wilde lived in Tite Street— and I’m thinking, from the top of my head: a fog-bound Cheyne Walk (Pont Street Dutch), blue and white china, Japanism, Morris & Co. stuffs, bodies fished from the river (The Thames Torso Mysteries of 1887-1889), the rattle of the hansom cab— the ...
4 giorni fa · Re Artù: scopri le affascinanti leggende di Re Artù e i suoi Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda, con Excalibur, Mago Merlino e Camelot.
2 giorni fa · Malory follows Morgan's portrayals from the Old French prose cycles in his late-15th-century seminal work of the selective compilation book Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur), though he reduces her in role and detail of characterisation, in particular either removing or limiting her traditions of healing and prophecy, and making ...
1 giorno fa · In 1893 he was asked to illustrate a new edition of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, and it was in the next year that he co-founded The Yellow Book with American writer Henry Harland, and two years after that another magazine, The Savoy, which survived for only eight numbers in 1896.
