Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(2023)A New Translation, with Related Pieces
A novel by Phyllis Ann Karr
The world may have "enough" translations of this great Middle English metrical romance, but can it ever have "too many"?
Phyllis Ann Karr caps more than half a century of loving this Middle English metrical romance by presenting her own new translation of it, along with a shortened version of the same, a new translation of the Bredbeddle version of the story, a translation of "The Avowing of Arthur (a much shorter metrical romance), a quick look at "Bricriu's Feast" (one of the sources for the Beheading Game), a new short story concerning Sir Mordred and the Green Knight, and a couple of essays, including one, begun in 1968 and rounded off in 2023, comparing and contrasting the Sir Gawain of this poem with Sir Ruthven of Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore. Her interpretation of GGK conflicts in certain important ways with that of every other literary critic she has yet encountered.
Genre: Fantasy
Phyllis Ann Karr caps more than half a century of loving this Middle English metrical romance by presenting her own new translation of it, along with a shortened version of the same, a new translation of the Bredbeddle version of the story, a translation of "The Avowing of Arthur (a much shorter metrical romance), a quick look at "Bricriu's Feast" (one of the sources for the Beheading Game), a new short story concerning Sir Mordred and the Green Knight, and a couple of essays, including one, begun in 1968 and rounded off in 2023, comparing and contrasting the Sir Gawain of this poem with Sir Ruthven of Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore. Her interpretation of GGK conflicts in certain important ways with that of every other literary critic she has yet encountered.
Genre: Fantasy
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