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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Item Number: PC3501
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One of the earliest great stories of English literature, Sir Gawain is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur’s Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitage, one of Britain’s leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation. This story has been a central theme in previous productions of The Christmas Revels.
Composed in the late fourteenth century by an anonymous author in the
English provinces, this remarkable epic has enchanted readers for
generations. The work itself is an unparalleled masterpiece of
alliteration and rhyme, beginning at Christmastime in Camelot, when the
festivities of the Round Table are interrupted by the sudden appearance
of a fearful stranger, green from head to foot. A young knight, Gawain,
rises to the challenge. What follows is a test of nerve and heart as
Gawain travels north to meet his destiny at the Green Chapel in a
year’s time. Following in the tradition of Seamus Heaney, Simon
Armitage, one of England's leading poets, has produced a virtuoso new
translation that resounds with both clarity and verve.
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