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[[File:SirBedivere_Beardsley_w270_7832.jpg|frame| <small>Knowing that you [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|can't expect to wield supreme executive power]] just because some watery tart threw a sword at you, Bedivere chucked [[Excalibur]] back into the lake.</small><ref>Image is "How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water" by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894.</ref>]]
[[File:SirBedivere_Beardsley_w270_7832.jpg|frame|<small>Knowing that you [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|can't expect to wield supreme executive power]] just because some watery tart threw a sword at you, Bedivere chucked [[Excalibur]] back into the lake.</small><ref>Image is "How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water" by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894.</ref>]]


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Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405--1471; his name is also spelled "Mallory" and a handful of other variants) was an English writer whose version of the [[King Arthur]] mythos, ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', is often treated as the definitive version. This is partially due to the fact that the book was one of the first to be printed in Britain (by William Caxton in 1485, 14 years after Malory's death), and subsequently reached a high circulation.


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''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' means ''The Death of Arthur''; it was originally only the title of the eighth and last "book" of Malory's narrative, which ''he'' named ''The Whole Book of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round Table''<ref>Though he spelt it ''The hoole booke of kyng Arthur & of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table''.</ref>. It was [[Executive Meddling|Caxton that changed the title]] to the one that was afterwards almost universally used, presumably because it was shorter.
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Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405--1471; his name is also spelt Mallory and a handful of other variants) was an English writer whose version of the [[King Arthur]] mythos, ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', is often treated as the definitive version. This is partially due to the fact that the book was one of the first to be printed in Britain (by William Caxton in 1485, 14 years after Malory's death), and subsequently reached a high circulation.

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''Le Morte d'Arthur'' means ''The Death of Arthur''; it was originally only the title of the 8th and last "book" of Malory's narrative, which ''he'' named ''The Whole Book of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round Table''<ref>Though he spelt it ''The hoole booke of kyng Arthur & of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table''.</ref>. It was [[Executive Meddling|Caxton that changed the title]] to the one that was afterwards almost universally used, presumably because it was shorter.


Oddly enough, in popular scholarly opinion Malory was himself an evil knight, who wrote the tale during his various stints in prison for robbery, murder, and rape(it was the belief of [[C. S. Lewis]] that much of that was from his enemies but if he was not as evil as some paint he was probably a feuding and rustling savage or in other words a typical knight).
Oddly enough, in popular scholarly opinion Malory was himself an evil knight, who wrote the tale during his various stints in prison for robbery, murder, and rape(it was the belief of [[C. S. Lewis]] that much of that was from his enemies but if he was not as evil as some paint he was probably a feuding and rustling savage or in other words a typical knight).


Malory also has a bit part in T. H. White's ''[[The Once and Future King]]'', as the squire that [[King Arthur]] sent off [[Famed in Story|to tell the story of the Round Table.]]
Malory also has a bit part in T. H. White's ''[[The Once and Future King]]'', as the squire that [[King Arthur]] sent off [[Famed in Story|to tell the story of the Round Table.]]
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=== Tropes exemplified by ''Le Morte d'Arthur'': ===


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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]
* [[Courtly Love]]
* [[Courtly Love]]

Revision as of 17:40, 17 January 2020

Knowing that you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you, Bedivere chucked Excalibur back into the lake.[1]

Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405--1471; his name is also spelled "Mallory" and a handful of other variants) was an English writer whose version of the King Arthur mythos, Le Morte d'Arthur, is often treated as the definitive version. This is partially due to the fact that the book was one of the first to be printed in Britain (by William Caxton in 1485, 14 years after Malory's death), and subsequently reached a high circulation.

Le Morte d'Arthur means The Death of Arthur; it was originally only the title of the eighth and last "book" of Malory's narrative, which he named The Whole Book of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round Table[2]. It was Caxton that changed the title to the one that was afterwards almost universally used, presumably because it was shorter.

Oddly enough, in popular scholarly opinion Malory was himself an evil knight, who wrote the tale during his various stints in prison for robbery, murder, and rape(it was the belief of C. S. Lewis that much of that was from his enemies but if he was not as evil as some paint he was probably a feuding and rustling savage or in other words a typical knight).

Malory also has a bit part in T. H. White's The Once and Future King, as the squire that King Arthur sent off to tell the story of the Round Table.

Tropes used in Le Morte d'Arthur include:
  1. ↑ Image is "How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water" by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894.
  2. ↑ Though he spelt it The hoole booke of kyng Arthur & of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table.
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