Arthurian Legends 1

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Content
  • Literature: Arthurian     Legends 1  - Intro
  • Context to 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'.
  • eindexamensite.nl - first text 20 May 2022 (2014-1)

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Present-day influences
  • Merlin (2008 - 2012)
  •  The Green Knight (2021)
  • Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
  • Shrek The Third (2007)
  • Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

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Context

  • Sir Gawain: 14th century
  •  The Late Middle Ages
  • Anonymous poet
  • One MS: The Pearl , Patience and Purity
  • Midlands dialect

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Page from the Cotton MS Nero A X from the British Library

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The Late Middle Ages
  • The Hundred years' war
 1337 - 1453
  • Peasant's Revolt - 1381
  • War of the Roses 
  • The Plague
  • Feudal society

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • New Year's Day = Feast day
  • Giant Stranger 
  • Challenge
  • Sir Gawain 
  • Son of Morgan le Fay
  • King Arthur's nephew
  • 1 year and 1 day  

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Sir and Lady Bertilak
  • Castle & Green Chapel
  • Another challenge!

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Homework
Read p. 1-4 of your booklet
Context
In class we will continue with the story of Gawain. 

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