Introduction to the King Arthur Story

    Overview
  • King Arthur: A Casebook. Ed. Edward Donald Kennedy. New York: Garland: 1996. NOTE "Introduction" xiii-xlviii, "Select Bibliography" xlix-lvi.
    The Quest for an "Historical" Arthur
  • Alcock, Leslie. Arthur's Britain: History and Archeology, AD 367-634. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
    First Tellings of the Story
  • Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. Trans. Lewis Thorpe. Baltimore: Penguin, 1966.
  • Wace. Brut. Ed. I.D.O Arnold. 2 vols. Paris: S.A.T.F., 1938-1940.
  • Mason, Eugene, trans. Wace and Layamon. Arthurian Chronicles. London: Dent [Everyman], 1912. Repr. 1986. Translation of the Arthurian part of Wace.
    The Development of the Arthur Story
  • Loomis, Roger Sherman. The Development of Arthurian Romance. London: Hutchinson, 1963. New YOrk: Harper, 1964.
  • -----------, ed. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1959.
  • Tatlock, J.S.P. The Legendary History of Britain. Berkeley: U of California P, 1950.
  • Chambers, E.K. Arthur of Britain. 1927. London: Lowe and Brydone, 1964 with supplemtary bibliography.
  • Brengle, Richard L. Arthur King of Britain: History, Chronicle, Romance and Criticism. With Texts in Modern English, from Gildas to Malory. New York: Appleton 1964. NOTE: translations of early references to Arthur.

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