English 333 - SEM:MAJOR BRIT OR AMER WRITER

Sir Thomas Malory was a Warwickshire knight with a bad conscience, charged with rape, attempted murder and other violent crimes during the Wars of the Roses. He completed his prose compilation of Arthurian lore in Newgate Prison in 1469, which William Caxton published in 1485 as Le Morte Darthur. It became the definitive account of the rise and fall of Arthurian Britain. We explore the Celtic roots and Christian resonances of Malory's epic saga, its commentary on the politics of his own day, the human passions in which he embroils his male and female characters in the legendary past.

Topic: Thomas Malory. Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores