What follows after Gawain steps up for this challenge is his quest for honor and self-worth. It’s a sprawling, quiet tale that extends beyond the translations of the poem in imaginative ways. Nerdist ...
David Lowery’s new film, “The Green Knight,” is an adaptation of the Arthurian poem of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” but it’s no more about medieval life and chivalrous norms than Martin Scorsese ...
Ralph Ineson as the Green Knight. Photo credit: Eric Zachanowich. Courtesy of A24 THE GREEN KNIGHT is writer/director David Lowery’s (A GHOST STORY) imaginative re-telling of the Arthurian tale “Sir ...
Would you lie to save your own life? This moral dilemma is the big reveal in one of my favorite poems. In an anonymous alliterative verse text of the late 14th century that only survives in one ...
https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.56.2.0153 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/chaucerrev.56.2.0153 Copy URL I would like to thank Michael Van Dussen, Manish ...