Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ARTHUR P. STONE,Manager...
...ARTHUR P. STONE,Manager...
Professor Kittredge related the story of King Arthur, when he was at the mercy of the cruel knight. He was given a year in which to discover what women liked most. Arthur and Gawain hunted high and low in vain, till a most filthy and ugly woman said she would save King Arthur, if Gawain would wed her. The tale says she was the ugliest woman alive, yet Gawain readily offered to marry her. So she told Arthur that women liked sovereignty most. Thus Arthur escaped, but poor Gawain found an arrogant mistress in his wife. At last, however...
...Gawain is identical with Malory's. But Malory's tale is entirely unlike the original romance. In all the early stories of Gawain, he is not the man that Malory and Tennyson have pictured him. He is an ideal knight, a champion of woman, a loyal subject of King Arthur, and as such we should look upon...
...ARTHUR R. CRANDELL...