Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Anonymous - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

King Arthur’s Round table resonates with the medieval reader as an ideal of equality and order: there is no head of the table, so that each knight is depicted as equally worthy of renown and equally skilled in his capabilities. As this Round Table...

In Gawain and the Green Knight, the Gawain-poet employs a remarkable clarity of language and detailed imagery, giving the reader very precise, glowing pictures of the action. Yet a central tension of the plot is that things are not what they...