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We've all heard the calls for Aaron Taylor-Johnson to be the next James Bond, but there are some other lesser known picks for ...
As the Times reports, the first stars Arthur’s nephew, Sir Gawain, a knight who faces off with Germanic Saxons invading from mainland Europe and disloyal English nobility—including his father.
We are nearing the culmination of my course in medieval literature at Thales College, reading Dante’s La Vita Nuova, to be followed by his Purgatory, the second of the three divisions of the ...
Pearl by Siân Hughes Many of you are likely familiar with the Middle English poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” a famous story of a Christmas game and the adventure that followed that ...
My love of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ever since first discovering it in my second year Middle English tutorials, was an itch I was repeatedly compelled to scratch. The tale left an indelible ...
While being intimately familiar with books like Moby-Dick and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are not obvious throughlines to getting a job, professors Tess Chakkalakal and Emma Maggie Solberg, who ...
Queen Guenevere (Abbie Desrosiers Mulberg), Sir Gawain (Terrence Bartlebaugh), and King Arthur (Morgan Duncan) at the Court of Camelot. From December 15 — 17, Washington Revels celebrated its 41st ...
You need not be a history buff to delight in ‘The Manuscripts Club’ Christopher de Hamel tours illuminated manuscripts with scholarly authority, highly engaging prose and magnificent art ...
Sir Gawain is the Arthurian knight who best embodies the strangeness of his time. This episode explores the legend of Gawain, a noble knight of King Arthur's Round Table who embarks on a perilous ...
It isn’t escapist popcorn fare, but The Green Knight, starring Dev Patel as Sir Gawain, is mesmerizing adult fantasy at its finest. Sign up for the Total Film Newsletter ...
Sharp declines in the English major (as well as in other majors across the humanities) have occasioned a great deal of coverage in recent years; Nathan Heller’s widely read New Yorker essay ...
He was the theme of the Burning Man Festival, in 2007. The Green Man is also what Mr. Simpson calls a “major player” in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” a late 14th century chivalric romance written ...