But the knight Gawain wouldn't meet his most formidable adversary until the 1300s, when he faced off against a knight with green skin and green clothes in the Middle English chivalric romance Sir ...

Sir Gawain & The Green Knight One of the greatest poems in the English language was written here in the Staffordshire Moorlands - that’s what some experts say. Here we explain how – and invite ...

David Lowery’s latest film, The Green Knight starring Dev Patel, is a loose adaptation of the epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a late 14th-century chivalric romance originally written ...

The Green Knight is an adaptation of the famous medieval poem known as “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” As in the film, the story opens on a Christmas feast in Camelot.

Composed in medieval England by an unknown poet and set in what were (even then) the old days of King Arthur, the tale of Sir Gawain begins when a magical warrior with green skin and green hair ...

It’s a question that’s long vexed scholars of the 14th century chivalric romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” The movie, like the epic poem, is full of mysteries, most of them unspoken.

The green giant obliging bares his neck and Sir Gawain takes a mighty swing. Here’s what happens next, as relayed to us in modern English by the latest translator of this medieval verse romance ...

With this boldly inventive adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymously written but enduring 14th-century poem, the writer-director David Lowery has taken a young man's journey of ...

“My name is David Lowery, and I adapted and directed The Green Knight. This is a scene in which Sir Gawain, who is not yet Sir Gawain— he is not a knight yet— played by Dev Patel, stops for ...

The Green Knight is a hero’s journey: Gawain’s quest to prove he is worthy of becoming a knight. A24/Eric Zachanowich. Gawain was a celebrity as he left Camelot.

David Lowery’s unique take on the 14th century poem has Dev Patel’s Sir Gawain going on a dark journey to meet The Green Knight one year after accepting a challenge in front of King Arthur and ...

“The Green Knight,” David Lowery’s beautiful, sometimes baffling medieval epic starring Dev Patel, has inspired equally passionate acclaim and dissent from critics and audiences. Times film ...