AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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 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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Contents 
• Introduction
• I. 
• General
• II. 
• The Growth of Arthurian Legend
• III. 
• The Morte Darthur
• IV. 
• The Style of a Gentleman
• V. 
• Structure
• VI. 
• The Tragedy of the Honourable Society
• VII. 
• The Author and Date of The Morte Darthur
• VIII. 
• A Note on the Text
• A Note on the Structure of the Morte Darthur
• Select Bibliography
• Caxton's Preface
• The Morte Darthur
• Part Seven. 
• The Book of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenevere
• 1. 
• The Poisoned Apple
• 2. 
• The Fair Maid of Astolat
• 3. 
• The Great Tournament
• 4. 
• The Knight of the Cart
• 5. 
• The Healing of Sir Urry
• Part Eight. 
• The Morte Arthur
• 1. 
• Slander and Strife
• 2. 
• The Vengeance of Sir Gawain
• 3. 
• The Siege of Benwick
• 4. 
• The Day of Destiny
• 5. 
• The Dolorous Death and Departing out of this world of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guenevere
• Notes
• Select Glossary

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