Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook

This collection offers feminist readings of the characters' representations in film and in other visual arts as well as eighteen illustrations of the lovers' first kiss and the consummation of the adultery.

Preface Introduction, Lori J. Walters 1. The Presentation of the Character of Lancelot: Chrétien to Malory, Derek Brewer 2. Lanzelet : A Flawless Hero in a Symmetrical World, James A. Schultz 3. An Interpreter's Dilemma: Wht Are There So Many Interpretations of Chrétien's Chevalier De La Charrette ? Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner 4. The Figure of Lancelot in the Lancelot-Graal , Elspeth Kennedy 5. Lancelot and Guinevere in the Middle Dutch Lancelot Companion, Bart Besamusca 6. Illustrating Lancelot and Guinevere, Alison Stones 7. Unifying Makers: Lancelot and Guinevere in Modern Literature and Art, Muriel Whitaker 8. Arthurian Myth Devalued in Walker Percy's Lancelot , John Bugge 9. Lancelot's Last Metamorphosis, Jean-Marcel Paquette 10. The Character of Guinevere in the Arthurian Romances of Chrétien De Troyes, Peter Noble 11. Guinevere: A Re-Appraisal, Susann Samples 12. Desire, Meaning. and the Female Reader: The Problem in Chrétien's Charrete , Roberta L. Krueger 13. Which Queen? Guinevere's Transvestism in the French Prose Lancelot , E. Jane Burns 14. Recovering Malory's Guinevere, Sarah J. Hill 15. The Figure of Guenevere in Modern Drama and Fiction. Elisabeth Brewer 16. Sharan Newman's Guinevere Trilogy, Sarold J. Herman