Arthurian Literature - Course Bibliography 2014-15
General
J. Stevens, Medieval Romance, 1973
Roger Middleton, (ed.) Arthurian Romance, (Nottingham, 1991)
E.D. Kennedy (ed.) King Arthur: A Casebook, 1996
W.R.J. Barron, English Medieval Romance, 1987
N.J. Lacy (ed.), The Arthurian Handbook, 1988
N.J. Lacy, The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, 1991
R.S. Loomis (ed.), Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 1959
R.S. Loomis, The Development of Arthurian Romance, 1970
S. Knight, Arthurian Literature and Society, 1983
D.D.R. Owen, Arthurian Romance
R. Morris, The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature, 1982
Friedrich Wolfzettel, (ed.) Arthurian Romance and Gender: Conference Proceedings (Amsterdam, 1995)
Thelma Fenster (ed.) Arthurian Women: a casebook (Garland, 1996)
K. Varty (ed.) An Arthurian Tapestry, 1981
M. Wynne-Davies, Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword, 1996
P.V. Davis & A.J. Kennedy (ed.), Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances, 1987
Alison Adams (ed.) The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance (Brewer, 1986)
V. Guerin, The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy, 1995
Norris J. Lacy ed. A History of Arthurian Scholarship (Brewer, 2006)
Beate Schmolke-Hasselman, The Evolution of Arthurian Romance (CUP, 2006)
Lori Walters ed. Launcelot and Guinevere: A Casebook (Routledge, 2002)
Alan Lupack, The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (OUP, 2005)
Philip C. Boardman & D.P. Nastali eds. The Arthurian Annals: The Tradition in English from 1250-2000 2
vols (OUP, 2004)
M. Victoria Guerin, The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy
(Stanford Univ. Press, 1995)
W.R.J. Barron (ed.) The Arthur of the English: the Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature
(Univ. of Wales Press, 2001)
Christopher Baswell & William Sharpe (eds.) The Passing of Arthur (Garland, 1988)
M.B. Shichtman & J.P. Carley (eds.), Culture and the King. The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend,
1994
Richard Barber, King Arthur in Legend and History (London, 1973)
Richard Barber, The Knight and Chivalry (Longmans, 1970)
Richard Barber & Juliet Barker, Tournaments: jousts, chivalry and pageants in the Middle Ages (Boydell,
1989)
Geoffrey of Monmouth
J.S.P. Tatlock, The legendary history of Britain: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ‘Historia regnum Britanniae’ and
its early vernacular versions, 1950
R.H. Fletcher, The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles, 1966
M.J. Curley, Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1994
T. Turville-Petre, England the Nation: Language, Literature and National Identity, 1290-1340, 1996
C. Brooke, ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth as a Historian’ in C.N.L. Brooke (ed), Church and Government in the
Middle Ages (CUP, 1976)
R.M. Loomis, ‘Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth’ in J.J. Wilhelm & L.Z. Gross (ed.) The Romance of Arthur,
1984, 57-86.
J.J. Wilhelm, ‘Arthur in the Chronicles’, in above, 5-12.
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R. Bromwich, J.O.H. Jarman & B.F. Roberts (eds.), The Arthur of the Welsh: the Arthurian Tradition in
Medieval Welsh Literature, 1991
M.R. Warren, ‘Making Contact: Postcolonial Perspectives through Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia
Regnum Britannie’, Arthuriana 8.4 (1998)*
J. Gillingham, ‘The Context and Purposes of Geoffrey of Monouth’s History of the Kings of Britain’, in M.
Chibnall ed. Anglo-Norman Studies 13, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1990 (1991)*
J. Crick, ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth, prophecy and history’, Journal of Medieval History, 18 (1992)
M. Curley, ‘The History of the Kings of Britain: Arthur and his Successors’, in M.J. Curley, Geoffrey of
Monmouth (1994)*
T. Turville-Petre, ‘The Story of England’, in Turville-Petre, England the Nation (1996)*
F.T. Neuendorf, ‘Negotiating Feminist and Historicist Concerns: Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s
Historia regum Brittaniae’, in Quondam et Futurus, 3 (1995)*
A.L. Furtado, ‘From Alexander of Macedonia to Arthur of Britain’, Arthuriana, 5 (1995)*
M. Fries, ‘The Arthurian Moment: History and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie’,
Arthuriana, 8 (1998)*
L. Johnson, ‘Etymologies, Genealogies and Nationalities (Again)’, in S. Forde, L. Johnson & A.V. Murray
(eds.), Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages, 1995*
B.N. Sargent-Barr, ‘Dux Bellorum / Rex Militum / Roi Faineant. The transformations of Arthur in the 12th
Century’, in E.D. Kennedy (ed.) King Arthur. A Casebook, 1996. #
F. Bogdanow, ‘The Evolution of the Theme of the Fall of Arthur’s Kingdom’, in Kennedy, King Arthur,
1996. #
J.J. Wilhelm, ‘Arthur in the Latin Chronicles’, in J.J. Wilhelm & J.Z. Gross (eds.) The Romance of Arthur,
1984. #
Chretien de Troyes
N.J. Lacy, The Craft of Chretien de Troyes, 1980
R.S. Loomis, Arthurian Tradition and Chretien de Troyes, 1949
Donald Maddox, The Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes: once and future fictions (CUP, 1991)
P. Haidu, Aesthetic Distance in Chretien de Troyes, 1968
L.T. Topsfield, Chretien de Troyes: a study of the Arthurian romances, 1981
T. Hunt, Chretien de Troyes: Yvain (critical guides), 1986
P.S. Noble, Love and Marriage in Chretien de Troyes, 1982
Douglas Kelly (ed.) The Romances of Chretien de Troyes: a symposium, 1985
R.H. Cline, Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart, 1990
P.J.C. Field, ‘Malory and Chretien de Troyes’, Reading Medieval Studies, 1991*
Douglas Kelly, The Art of Medieval French Romance, 1992
T. Artin, The Allegory of Adventure. Reading Chretien’s Erec and Yvain (London, 1974)
R.L. Krueger, ‘Love, Honour and the Exchange of Women in Yvain’, in T. Fenster (ed.) Arthurian Women
(1996) (see above) #
R.L. Krueger, ‘Desire, Meaning and the Female Reader: the Problem in Chretien’s Charrete’, in Christopher
Baswell & William Sharpe (eds.) The Passing of Arthur (Garland, 1988) #
P. McCracken, ‘The Body Politic and the Queen’s Adulterous Body in French Romance’, in L. Lomperis &
S. Stanbury, Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, 1993
Norris J. Lacy & J. T. Grimbert eds. A Companion to Chretien de Troyes (Brewer, 2005)
M.H. Jones & R. Wisbey (eds.) Chretien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages (Brewer, 1993)
E.Jane Burns & Roberta L. Krueger (eds.) Courtly Ideology and Woman’s Place in Medieval French
Literature (1985)
Albrecht Classen (ed), Discourses on Love, Marriage and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern
Literature (Arizona, 2004)
Marie de France, Lanval, and Sir Thomas Chestre, Sir Launfal
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Intro. to The Lais of Marie de France, trans. G. S. Burgess & K. Busby (Penguin)
P. Clifford, Marie de France, Lais, Critical Guide, 1982
E.J. Mickel, Marie de France, 1974
E.Jane Burns & Roberta L. Krueger (eds.) Courtly Ideology and Woman’s Place in Medieval French
Literature (1985)
D.Chamberlain, ‘Marie de France’s Arthurian Lais: Subtle and Political’, in M.B. Shichtman & J.P. Carley
(eds.), Culture and the King. The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend, 1994
E. Hoepffner, ‘The Breton Lais’, in R.S. Loomis (ed) Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 1959
Intro. in A.J. Bliss (ed) Thomas Chestre, Sir Launfal, 1960
A.C. Spearing, ‘The Lanval Story’, in The Medieval Poet as Voyeur: Looking and Listening in Medieval Love
Narratives (1993), ch.5
B.K. Martin, ‘Sir Launfal and the Folktale’, Medium Aevum, 35 (1966), 199-210
C.J. Nappholz, ‘Launfal’s Largesse’, English Language Notes, 25.3 (1988), 4-9
W.R.J. Barron (ed.) The Arthur of the English, 1999, pp.130-35
Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan
M. Chinca, Tristan, 1997
N. Thomas, Tristan in the Underworld, (Edwin Mellen)
C.S. Jaeger, Medieval Humanism in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan and Isolde
A. Stevens & R. Wisby eds. Gottfried von Strassburg and the Medieval Tristan Legend, Brewer, 1990
W.T.H. Jackson, The Anatomy of Love – The Tristan of Gottfired von Strassburg, 1971
Joan T. Grimbert ed. Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook (Routledge, 2002)
Will Hasty ed. A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan (Camden House, 2002)
A.M. Rusmussen, ‘Es ist ir garet von mir’ Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Tristan and Isolde’, in Fenster,
Arthurian Women, 1996* (also, see above)
J.R. DiLeo, ‘The Divine Structure of Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan: God, Transcendence and
Coincidentia oppositorum’, Tristania, 16 (1995)*
P. Meister, ‘Wounds and Healing in Gottfried’s Tristan’, Tristania, 13 (1987-8)*
J.A. Schultz, ‘Clothing and Disclosing: Clothes, Class and Gender in Gottfried’s Tristan’, Tristania, 17
(1996)*
A.Closs, ‘The Love Potion as a Poetic Symbol in Gottfried’s Tristan’, in Stevens & Wisby, GvS and MTL
(1990)* (also, see above)
M. Wynn, ‘Gottfried’s Heroine, in Stevens & Wisby, GvS and MTL (1990) (see above). #
M. Batts, ‘The role of King Marke in Gottfried’s Tristan – and elsewhere’, in Stevens & Wisbey, CVS &
MTL, (1990) #
T. Kerth, ‘Marke’s Royal Decline’, in Stevens & Wisbey, GVS & MTL, (1990) #
P.W. Tax, ‘Wounds and Healings: Aspects of Salvation and Tragic Love in Gottfried’s Tristan’, in Stevens &
Wisbey, GVS & MTL (1990) #
M. Borwn & C.S. Jaeger, ‘Pageantry and Court Aesthetic in Tristan: the Procession of the Hunters’, in
Stevens & Wisbey, GVS & MTL (1990).
Middle English Gawain Romances
Raymond H. Thompson & Keith Busby eds. Gawain: A Casebook (Routledge, 2005)
W.R.J. Barron, The Arthur of the English (2001), ch.6.
Roger Loomis, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, pp. 480-520.
FULLER BIBLIOGRAPHY TO FOLLOW
The Grail Legend
P. Matarasso, The Redemption of Chivalry: A Study of the Queste del Saint Graal, 1979
F.W. Locke, The Quest for the Holy Grail: a literary study of a 13th century French Romance, 1960
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R.S. Loomis, The Grail: from Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol, 1963
C. Morse, The Pattern of Judgement in the Queste and Cleanness, 1978
Emma Jung & M-L. von Franz, The Grail Legend, (tr. Andrea Dykes), 1971
W.W. Kibler (ed.), The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and transformations, 1994
Carol Dover ed. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Brewer, 2003)
Norris J. Lacy, E. Jane Burns, Carol Chase, Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and PostVulgate in Translation (Garland, 1992), 4 vols.
Norris J. Lacy ed. The Lancelot-Grail Reader: selections from the Medieval French Arthurian cycle
(Garland, 2000)
D.D.R. Owen, The Evolution of the Grail Legend, 1968
R. Cavendish, King Arthur and the Grail: The Arthurian Legends and their Meanings, 1980
D.B. Mahoney (ed.) The Grail. A Casebook (2000)
E.Jung & M-L Von Franz, ‘The Central Symbol of the Legend. The Grail as Vessel’, in Mahoney, The Grail
(2000) #
J.P. Traxler, ‘Dying to get to Sarras. Perceval’s Sister and the Grail Quest’, in Mahoney, The Grail (2000) #
L.N. De Looze, ‘A Story of Interpretations. The Queste del Saint Graal as Metaliterature’, in Mahoney, The
Grail (2000)*
M.R. Wright, ‘Designing the End of History in the Arming of Galahad’, Arthuriana 5 (1995) *
E.J. Burns, ‘Devilish Ways: Sexing the Subject in the Queste del Saint Graal’, Arthuriana 8 (1998) *
R. Rossignal, ‘The Holiest Vessel: Maternal Aspects of the Grail’, Arthuriana 5 (1995) *
K.M. Talarico, ‘Romancing the Grail. Fiction and Theology in the Queste del Saint Graal’, in P. Meister
(ed.) Arthurian Literature and Christianity (1999) *
M.B. Shichtman, ‘Politicizing the Ineffable. The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal’,
in M.B. Shichtman & J.P. Carley (eds.) Culture and the King. The Social Implications of the Arthurian
Legend (1994) *
Sir Thomas Malory
J. Mann, The Narrative of Distance in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, 1991
M.J. Parins (ed.), Malory, the Critical Heritage, 1988
T. Takamiya & D. Brewer (eds.) Aspects of Malory, 1981
L.D. Benson, Malory’s Morte Darthure, 1976
E. Archibald & A.S.G. Edwards (eds.) A Companion to Malory, 1996
H. Lynch, Malory’s Book of Arms, 1997
P.J.C. Field, The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory, 1993
Kennedy, Knighthood in the Morte Arthur,
Lafarge, Sir Thomas Malory, 1995
M. Whitaker, Arthur’s Kingdom of Adventure: the World of Malory’s Morte Arthur, 1984
Hyonjin Kim ed. The Knight without a Sword: A Social Landscape of Malorian Chivalry (Brewer, 2000)
R. Radulescu, The Gentry Context for Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (Brewer, 2003)
Thomas H Crofts, Malory’s Contemporary Audience: the social reading of Romance in Late Medieval
England (Brewer, 2006)
Catherine Batt, Malory’s Morte d’Arthur: Remaking Arthurian Tradition (Palgrave, 2001)
Dorsey Armstrong, Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (Univ. Press of
Florida, 2003)
Kenneth Hodges, Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (Palgrave, 2005)
Kevin Whetter & Raluca Radulescu eds. Re-Viewing Le Morte d’Arthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and
Themes (Brewer, 2005)
Victorian Arthurian Revival - General
D.N. Mancoff, The Arthurian Revival in Victorian Art, 1990
E.D. Kennedy (ed.), King Arthur: a Casebook, 1966
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C.Baswell & W. Sharpe (eds.), The Passing of Arthur: new essays in Arthurian tradition, 1988
B. Taylor & E. Brewer, The Return of King Arthur: British and American Arthurian Literature since 1800,
1983
G. Ashe, King Arthur: the dream of a Golden Age, 1990
A. Chandler, A Dream of Order: the Medieval Ideal in 19th century English Literature, 1971
M. Girouard, The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman, 1981
Watson & Fries, The Figure of Merlin in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1989
A. Hook, Arthurian Literature in Context III: 1865-1900, 1983
J. Simons, From Medieval to Medievalism, 1992
H.L. Sussman, Victorian masculinities: manhood and masculine poetics in early Victorian literature and art,
1995
Inga Bryden, Reinventing King Arthur: The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture (Ashgate, 2005)
Maureen Fries, Bonnie Wheeler & F. Tolhurst eds. On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen
Fries (Scriptorium)
Jennifer A Palmgren, Beyond Arthurian Romances and Gothic Thrillers: the Reaches of Victorian
Medievalism (Palgrave, 2005)
D.N. Mancoff, ‘To Take Excalibur. King Arthur and the Constructions of Victorian Manhood’, in Kennedy,
King Arthur (1996) *
D.N. Mancoff, ‘Pure Hearts and Clean Hands. The Victorians and the Grail’, in Mahoney, The Grail (2000) #
Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King
C.Y. Lang, Tennyson’s Arthurian Psycho-Drama, 1983
J.R. Reed, Perception and Design in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, 1969
Roger Simpson, Camelot Regained: The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson 1800-1849 (Brewer, 1990)
A.D. Culler, The Poetry of Tennyson, 1977
P. Eggers, King Arthur’s Laureate, 1971
L.K. Hughes, Tennyson’s Urban Arthurians: Victorian audiences and the ‘City built to Music’,
Laura C. Lambdin & Robert T Lambdin, Camelot in the Nineteenth Century: Arthurian Character in the
Poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris & Swinburne (1999)
E.L. Gilbert, ‘The Female King. Tennyson’s Arthurian Apocalypse’, in Kennedy, King Arthur (1996) *
L.K. Hughes, ‘Scandals of Faith and Gender in Tennyson’s Grail Poems’, in Mahoney, The Grail (2000) #
J. Rosenberg, ‘Tennyson and the Passing of Arthur’, in Baswell & Sharpe, Passing of Arthur (1988) #
The Pre-Raphaelites – William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Matthew Arnold
Arthurian Poets: Matthew Arnold and William Morris, ed. J.P. Carley, 1990
J. Banham & J. Harris, William Morris and the Middle Ages, 1984
J.A. Konarski, ‘A Progress towards Redemption: Guinevere in William Morris’s The defence of Guinevere
and King Arthur’s Tomb’, in Arthurian Yearbook, 3, 1993, 39-76.
I. Bradley, William Morris and his World, 1978
M. Whitaker, The Legends of King Arthur in Art, 1990
J. Dixon Hunt, The Pre-Raphaelite Imagination 1848-1900, 1968
T. Hilton, The Pre-Raphaelites, 1993
C. Wood, The Pre-Raphaelites, 1994
K. Hodder, ‘The Lady of Shalott in Art and Literature’, in S. Mendus & J. Rendall (eds.), Sexuality and
Subordination, 1989
J. Marsh, Pre-Raphaelite Women,
M. Pointon, The Pre-Raphaelites Re-Viewed, 1989
Laura C. Lambdin & Robert T Lambdin, Camelot in the Nineteenth Century: Arthurian Character in the
Poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris & Swinburne (1999)
Algernon Swinburne: Arthurian Poets Series (Boydell, 1990)
Matthew Arnold & William Morris: Arthurian Poets Series (Boydell, 1995)
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Christine Poulson, Morris, Burne-Jones and the Quest for the Holy Grail (William Morris Society, 2001)
C.Silver, ‘Victorian Spellbinders: Arthurian Women and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle’, in Baswell & Sharpe,
The Passing of Arthur (1988) *
C.Silver, ‘In Defence of Guinevere’, in Fenster, Arthurian Women (1996) *
B.F. Leavy, ‘Iseult of Brittany. A New Interpretation of Matthew Arnold’s Tristan and Iseult’, in Fenster,
Arthurian Women (1996) #
Modern Arthurian Literature – General
R.H. Thompson, The Return from Avakon: a study of Arthurian legend in modern fiction, 1985
T.E. Apter, Fantasy Literature, 1992
E.Birge Vitz, Medieval Narratives and Modern Narratology: Subjects and Objects of Desire,
1992
M.S. Brownlee, K. Brownlee & S.G. Nichols (eds.) The New Medievalism, 1991
R.M. Jackson, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion, 1981
R.C. Schlobin, The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art, 1982
N.C. Starr, King Arthur Today,
A. Roberts, Silk and Potatoes. Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy, 1998
John B. Marino, The Grail Legend in Modern Literature (Brewer, 2004)
Debra N. Mancoff, King Arthur’s Modern Return (Garland, 1998)
E.Brewer, ‘The Figure of Guenevere in Modern Drama and Fiction’, in Fenster, Arthurian Women (1996) #
Mark Twain
F.Anderson (ed.) Mark Twain: the Critical Heritage, 1971
E.Emerson, The Authentic Mark Twain: A Literary Biography of Samuel L. Clemens, 1984
P.S. Foner, Mark Twain as Social Critic, 1958
R. Regan, Unpromising Heroes: Mark Twain and his Characters, 1966
D.E.E. Sloane, Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian, 1979
D. Welland, Mark Twain in England, 1978
D.R. Sewell, ‘Hank Morgan and the Colonization of Utopia’, in E.J. Sundquist (ed.) Mark Twain. A
Collection of Critical Essays, 1994
J. Goodman, The Legend of King Arthur in British and American Literature, 1988
Charles Williams and John Masefield
Arthurian Poets: Charles Williams, ed. J. Lewellyn Dodds, (Boydell, 1991)
G.Cavaliero, Charles Williams: Poet of Theology, 1983
J.Chance, ‘The Inklings and others’, Studies in Medievalism, 1991 (for Charles Williams)
C.S. Lewis, Arthurian Torso, 1952
John Masefield (Arthurian Studies) (Brewer, 1994)
K.H. Goller, ‘From Logres to Carbonek. The Arthuriad of Charles Williams’, in Mahoney, The
Grail (2000) *
T.H. White
D. Gallix, ‘T.H. White and the Legend of King Arthur’, in
R.H. Thompson, ‘Conceptions of King Arthur in the Twentieth Century’, in
R.H. Thompson, The Return from Avakon: a study of Arthurian legend in modern fiction, 1985
E.Brewer, T.H. White’s Once and Future King, 1993’
M. Kellman, T.H. White and the Matter of Britain: A Literary Overview, 1988
F. Gallix, ‘T.H. White and the Legend of King Arthur. From Animal Fantasy to Political
Morality’, in Kennedy, King Arthur (1996) #
Mary Stewart OR Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Ann F. Howey, Rewriting the Women of Camelot: Arthurian Popular Fiction and Feminism
(Greenwood Press, 2001)
S. Lefanu, Feminism and Science Fiction, 1988
M.R. Farwell, ‘Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts: towards a theory of Lesbian Narrative
Space in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon’, in K. Jay & J. Glasgow (eds.) Lesbian Texts
and Conetxts: Radical Revisions (1990) *
M.R. Farwell, ‘The Heroic Lesbian Narrative: M. Z. Bradley’s Mists of Avalon’, in M.R. Farwell,
Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives, (1996) *
Arthurian Film
Susan Aronstein, Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia (Palgrave,
2005)
M. Burde, ‘Monty Python’s Medieval Masterpiece’ Arthurian Yearbook III, 1993, 3-20
J. Hawthorne, From Malory to Motion Pictures, 1985
E. Kennedy, ‘The World of King Arthur according to John Boorman’, in American Film, 6 Mar,
1981
Other writers, poets and artists who treat Arthurian themes in 20th century
E.A. Robinson, Merlin, 1917, Lancelot, 1920, Tristram, 1927 (American poet)
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
John Masefield, Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse, 1928
John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, 1958
Rosemary Sutcliffe, The Lantern Bearers, 1959, Sword at Sunset, 1963
Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising series, 1965-77
Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave, 1970, The Hollow Hills, 1973, The Last Enchantment, 1976
John Heath-Stubbs, Artorius, 1973 (epic poem)
Thomas Berger, Arthur Rex, 1978
Gillian Bradshaw, Hawk in May, Winter Shadow, Kingdom of Summer, 1980-2
Sharan Newman, Guinevere, The Chessboard Queen, Guinevere Evermore, 1981-5
David Lodge, Small World, 1984 (a Grail novel)
Stephen Lawhead, The Pendragon cycle, 1987-9
Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron, 1989
Fay Sampson, Daughter of Tintagel, 1992
Bernard Cornwall, The Warlord Chronicles: The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur, 1995, The
Enemy of God, 1997
Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin, 1996
Haydn Middleton, The Mordred cycle (psychoanalytical angle)
Checklist of Influential Arthurian Films
Jean Cocteau, L’Eternal Retour, 1943
Bruce Baillie, Parsifal, 1963
Wolfgang Reitheman, The Sword in the Stone, 1963
Joshua Logan, Camelot, 1967
Robert Bresson, Lancelot du Lac, 1974
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975
John Boorman, Excalibur, 1981
First Knight, 1995
Arthur, 2005
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