King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, with 23 books includes modern retellings of the tale, sources of the tale, and works inspired by it (such as Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Lady of the Lake, The Faerie Queene, and Idylls of the King).

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Table of Contents

Modern Retellings of the Tale

• The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch
• The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles
• The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Howard Pyle

Sources of the Tale

• History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius (c. 800), translated by J.A. Giles
• The Mabinogion, translated from the Welsh by Lady Charlotte Guest
• Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, an alliterative romance-poem (c. 1360) edited by Richard Morris, 1869
• Romanz de 'estoire dou Graal, attributed to Robert de Boron, in Old French
• Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Wace, translated by Eugene Mason
• Four Arthurian Romances (Erec and Enide, Cliges, Yvain, and Lancelot by Chretien DeTroyes (12th century), in English translation
• The High History of the Holy Graal
• Le Morte Darthur, Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round Table, in English
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Romance of Morien, translated by Jessie L. Weston
• Arthur, a Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, edited from the Marquis of Bath's ms. by Frederick J. Furnivall, 1864

Works Inspired by the Legend

• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, 1596
• The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• In the Court of King Arthur by Samuel E. Lowe
• Parsifal: a Drama by Wagner, retold by Oliver Huckel
• Tristan and Isolda by Wagner (the libretto)
• Wagner's Tristan and Isole, an Essay on Wagnerian Drama by George Ainslie Hight

Interpretations of the Legend

• From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. Weston, 1919