History The Morte d'Arthur is written in the second half of the fifteenth century, a period tormented for England, marked in particular by the War of the Two Roses. The attribution of the Morte d'Arthur to Malory is not certain, for if the work has been attributed to an author by the name of Thomas Malory, several English personalities bear this name. The theory of the American G. L. Kittredge ascribing the work to Sir Thomas Malory of Warwickshire clearly prevails over the others. The political situation of the country (and the retreat of the English in France) has certainly prompted Malory...

Algunas partes del libro son material original de Malory, mientras que otras son las interpretaciones que Malory dio a historias anteriores. Gracias a este libro, los relatos arturicos han conocido multiples y variadas ediciones a lo largo de estos cinco siglos, siendo Malory, uno de los pocos autores ingleses de un pasado no cercano que siguen siendo leidos.

The original spelling was Le Morte Darthur, which was Middle French for "the death of Arthur," and is one of the most famous works in English Literature. It is a re-working of traditional tales by Sir Thomas Malory about King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table though there are several original additions by him including the Gareth story. Little is known about Sir Thomas Malory and, indeed, it is only since the late nineteenth century that he has been identified with some certainity as Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, a knight, land-owner,...