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Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume 1 (The Penguin English Library)
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About Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume 1
Product Description Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le Fay and the exploits of the Knights of the Round Table, it magically weaves together adventure, battle, love and enchantment. Le Morte D'Arthur looks back to an idealized Medieval world and is full of wistful, elegiac regret for a vanished age of chivalry. Edited and published by William Caxton in 1485, Malory's prose romance drew on French and English verse sources to give an epic unity to the Arthur myth, and remains the most magnificent re-telling of the story in English. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. About the Author No one knows for sure who the author of Le Morte D'Arthur was, but the generally accepted theory is that of American scholar G.L. Kitteredge, who argued it was Sir Thomas Malory, born in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, and who spent the greatest part of his last twenty years in prison. Another possibility is a Thomas Malory of Studley and Hutton in Yorkshire, or an author living north of Warwickshire. It is generally accepted that the author was a member of the gentry and a Lancastrain. John Lawlor was Professor a of English Language and Literature at the University of Keele. He is the author of The Tragic Sense in Shakespeare, Piers Plowman: An Essay in Criticism and Chaucer. Janet Cowen is a senior lecturer in English at King's College, University of London. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Morte D'Arthur, Le Volume 1By Thomas Malory Penguin BooksCopyright © 1970 Thomas Malory All right reserved. ISBN: 0140430431 Chapter One How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again. IT befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was kingof all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwallthat held war against him long time. And the duke was called the Duke ofTintagil. And so by means King Uther sent for this duke, charging him tobring his wife with him, for she was called a fair lady, and a passingwise, and her name was called Igraine. So when the duke and his wife were come unto the king, by the means ofgreat lords they were accorded both. The king liked and loved this ladywell, and he made them great cheer out of measure, and desired to havelain by her. But she was a passing good woman, and would not assent untothe king. And then she told the duke her husband, and said, I supposethat we were sent for that I should be dishonoured; wherefore, husband,I counsel you, that we depart from hence suddenly, that we may ride allnight unto our own castle. And in like wise as she said so theydeparted, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware oftheir departing. All so soon as King Uther knew of their departing sosuddenly, he was wonderly wroth. Then he called to him his privycouncil, and told them of the sudden departing of the duke and his wife. Then they advised the king to send for the duke and his wife by a greatcharge; and if he will not come at your summons, then may ye do yourbest, then have ye cause to make mighty war upon him. So that was done,and the messengers had their answers; and that was this shortly, thatneither he nor his wife would not come at him. Then was the king wonderly wroth. And then the king sent him plain wordagain, and bade him be ready and stuff him and garnish him, for
