The Forest of Medieval Romance

Traces the development of the forest as a central literary motif in medieval romance.

Preface
Introduction
The Origins of the Romance Forest	p. 1
The Historical Forest	p. 1
The Biblical Wilderness	p. 10
The Philosophical Tradition: Silva and Hyle	p. 19
Classical Antecedents and Romance Retellings	p. 25
The Classical Tradition	p. 25
The Roman d'Antiquite	p. 34
The Forest of Courtly Romance: The Twelfth Century	p. 44
The Breton Lay	p. 46
The Romances of Chretien de Troyes	p. 58
The Tristan Romances	p. 81
Convention and Innovation: The Thirteenth Century	p. 95
Contes	p. 95
The Prose Romances of Lancelot and Tristan	p. 103
The Landscape of Vision: Merlin and the Grail Quest	p. 114
The Vita Merlini and the Hagiographic Tradition	p. 115
The Queste del Saint Graal	p. 122
Multiple Readings: The Middle English Romances	p. 132
Sir Orfeo	p. 133
Sir Launfal	p. 142
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	p. 148
Chaucer	p. 155
The Forests of Logres: Malory's Morte Darthur	p. 163
Rewriting the Forest: Spenser and Shakespeare	p. 186
Spenser's The Faerie Queene	p. 187
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It	p. 196
Epilogue	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 229
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