Arguably no medieval English literary work has had as far and wide a reach as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur ; among the many adaptations are Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", T.H. White's The Once and Future King and the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot . It might also be argued that the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century tradition of fantasy literature-from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to George Lucas's Star Wars and beyond-owes much to the Arthurian tradition, rooted in English most strongly in Malory's Morte Darthur . Yet there has been no edition that draws on the results...
Arguably no medieval English literary work has had as far and wide a reach as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur ; among the many adaptations are Te...