Product Description: This book is the first systematic study in decades of Malory’s development of his characters in the Morte Darthur. Focusing on sixteen key figures in the most important medieval English treatment of the Arthurian saga, it examines Malory’s thematic characterization of individual rulers, knights, and ladies in keeping with the twin trajectories of his history of the Round Table and fifteenth-century English history...read more

Product Description: Where their forebears had few doubts, twentieth-century critics have often called into question the importance of Malory's Morte Darthur to Spenser's Faerie Queene. This book replaces methods of source study previously applied to the problem with an intertextual approach that yields fresh insights into the vital interrelatedness of these two works...read more