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180 relations: A Sicilian Romance, Acritic songs, Adventure, Alexander romance, Alexander the Great, Amadas, Amadís de Gaula, Anatomy of Criticism, Anglo-Norman language, Ann Radcliffe, Apollonius of Tyre, Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari, As You Like It, Beowulf, Bildungsroman, Book of the Knight Zifar, Bram Stoker, Brut Chronicle, Burlesque, Byzantine Empire, Cantar de Mio Cid, Chanson de geste, Charlemagne, Chivalric sagas, Chrétien de Troyes, Courtly love, Courtship, Crescentia (romance), Desire, Digenes Akritas, Don Quixote, Dracula, Early modern Europe, Edmund Spenser, Emaré, England, English language, Epic poetry, Erec and Enide, Erl of Toulouse, Eufemiavisorna, Euphemia of Rügen, Fairy, Fairy tale, Fantasy, Flannery O'Connor, Frame story, Franco-Provençal language, Frithiof's Saga, Fulk FitzWarin, ..., Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Gaslamp fantasy, Generides, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Frideric Handel, German language, Germany, Gothic fiction, Gottfried von Strassburg, Green Knight, Guillaume de Palerme, H. G. Wells, Havelok the Dane, Hereward the Wake, Hero, Hertig Fredrik av Normandie, High culture, High Middle Ages, Holy Grail, Horace Walpole, Hudibras, Huon of Bordeaux, Ipomadon, Irony, Italian language, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jerusalem Delivered, Joanot Martorell, João de Lobeira, John Dryden, King Arthur, King Horn, Knight, Knight of the Swan, Knight-errant, La Mancha, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Lancelot-Grail, Le Bone Florence of Rome, Le Morte d'Arthur, Legend, Literary genre, Ludovico Ariosto, Matter of Britain, Matter of France, Matter of Rome, Medievalism, Middle Ages, Miguel de Cervantes, Morgan le Fay, Narrative, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novel, Oberon, Occitan language, Octavian (romance), Old French, Opera seria, Orlando Furioso, Paladin, Pandosto, Parzival, Perceforest, Planetary romance, Portuguese language, Poul Anderson, Princess and dragon, Princesse lointaine, Prose, Quest, Realism (arts), Renaissance, Renaissance humanism, Restoration spectacular, Richard I of England, Rinaldo (opera), Robert Greene (dramatist), Robert the Devil, Roland, Roman de la Rose, Romance (love), Romance novel, Romance of Horn, Romance Writers of America, Romanticism, Roswall and Lillian, Round Table, Ruritanian romance, Satire, Science fiction, Scientific romance, Seven Wise Masters, Shakespeare's late romances, Sir Cleges, Sir Degrevant, Sir Eglamour of Artois, Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Isumbras, Sir Launfal, Spanish language, The Canterbury Tales, The Castle of Otranto, The Discarded Image, The Girl Without Hands, The Indian Queen (play), The King of Tars, The Knight in the Panther's Skin, The Knight's Tale, The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain, The Man of Law's Tale, The Romance of the Forest, The Song of Roland, The Squire of Low Degree, The Tale of Gamelyn, The Tempest, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Winter's Tale, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Malory, Thomas of Britain, Tirant lo Blanch, Torquato Tasso, Tristan, Trojan War, Valentine and Orson, Verse (poetry), William Morris, William Shakespeare, Wolfram von Eschenbach. Expand index (130 more) »
A Sicilian Romance
A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe.
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Acritic songs
The Acritic songs ("frontiersmen songs") are the heroic or epic poetry that emerged in the Byzantine Empire probably around the 9th century.
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Adventure
An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking.
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Alexander romance
The Romance of Alexander is any of several collections of legends concerning the exploits of Alexander the Great.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
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Amadas
Amadas, or Sir Amadace is a medieval English chivalric romance, one of the rare ones for which there is neither a known nor a conjectured French original, Laura A. Hibbard, Medieval Romance in England p73 New York Burt Franklin,1963 like Sir Eglamour of Artois.
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Amadís de Gaula
Amadís de Gaula (original Old Spanish and Galician-Portuguese spelling; Amadís de Gaula,; Amadis de Gaula) is a landmark work among the chivalric romances which were in vogue in sixteenth-century Spain, although its first version, much revised before printing, was written at the onset of the 14th century.
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Anatomy of Criticism
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press, 1957) is a book by Canadian literary critic and theorist, Northrop Frye, which attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature.
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Anglo-Norman language
Anglo-Norman, also known as Anglo-Norman French, is a variety of the Norman language that was used in England and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in the British Isles during the Anglo-Norman period.
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Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe (born Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel.
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Apollonius of Tyre
Apollonius of Tyre is the subject of an ancient short novella, popular in the Middle Ages.
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Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari
Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari (fl. 1305–1324) was a medieval Occitan author from Castelnaudary.
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As You Like It
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.
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Beowulf
Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
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Bildungsroman
In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman ("bildung", meaning "education", and "roman", meaning "novel"; English: "novel of formation, education, culture"; "coming-of-age story") is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.
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Book of the Knight Zifar
The Book of the Knight Zifar (originally Livro del cavallero Cifar, in modern orthography Libro del caballero Zifar) is the earliest fictional adventure tale in prose in the Spanish language.
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.
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Brut Chronicle
The Brut Chronicle, also known as the Prose Brut, is the collective name of a number of medieval chronicles of the history of England.
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Burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).
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Cantar de Mio Cid
El Cantar de mio Cid, literally "The Song of my Cid" (or El Poema de mio Cid), also known in English as The Poem of the Cid, is the oldest preserved Castilian epic poem (epopeya).
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Chanson de geste
The chanson de geste, Old French for "song of heroic deeds" (from gesta: Latin: "deeds, actions accomplished"), is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne or Charles the Great (Karl der Große, Carlo Magno; 2 April 742 – 28 January 814), numbered Charles I, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor from 800.
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Chivalric sagas
The riddarasögur (literally 'sagas of knights', also known in English as 'chivalric sagas', 'romance-sagas', 'knights' sagas', 'sagas of chivalry') are Norse prose sagas of the romance genre.
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Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a late-12th-century French poet and trouvère known for his work on Arthurian subjects, and for originating the character Lancelot.
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Courtly love
Courtly love (or fin'amor in Occitan) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry.
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Courtship
Courtship is the period of development towards an intimate relationship wherein people (usually a couple) get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement or other romantic arrangement.
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Crescentia (romance)
Crescentia is an Old High German chivalric romance, written in Kaiserchronik about 1150.
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Desire
Desire is a sense of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome.
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Digenes Akritas
Digenes Akrites (Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτης), known in folksongs as Digenes Akritas (Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτας) and also transliterated as Digenis Akritis, is the most famous of the Acritic Songs.
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Don Quixote
The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
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Early modern Europe
Early modern Europe is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century.
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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
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Emaré
Emaré is a Middle English Breton lai, a form of Mediaeval romance poem, told in 1035 lines.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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Erec and Enide
Erec and Enide (Érec et Énide) is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170.
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Erl of Toulouse
The Erl of Toulouse (also known as The Romance of Dyoclicyane) is a medieval English chivalric romance centered on an innocent persecuted wife.
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Eufemiavisorna
The Eufemiavisorna are a group of three medieval romances translated into medieval Swedish: Herr Ivan lejonriddaren (1303), Hertig Fredrik av Normandie (1301 or 1308), and Flores och Blanzeflor (probably 1312).
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Euphemia of Rügen
Euphemia of Rügen (c. 1280 – May 1312) was the Queen consort of Norway as the spouse of Håkon V of Norway.
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Fairy
A fairy (also fata, fay, fey, fae, fair folk; from faery, faerie, "realm of the fays") is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural.
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Fairy tale
A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.
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Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.
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Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.
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Frame story
A frame story (also known as a frame tale or frame narrative) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.
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Franco-Provençal language
No description.
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Frithiof's Saga
Frithiof's Saga (Friðþjófs saga hins frœkna) is a legendary saga from Iceland which in its present form is from ca.
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Fulk FitzWarin
Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160–1258; alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of Warin") was a powerful marcher lord seated at Whittington Castle in Shropshire in England on the border with Wales, and also at Alveston in Gloucestershire.
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Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (not Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo) (c.1450–1504) was a Castilian author who arranged the modern version of the chivalric romance Amadis of Gaul, written in three books in the 14th century by an unknown author.
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Gaslamp fantasy
Gaslamp fantasy (also known as gaslight fantasy or gaslight romance) is a subgenre of both fantasy and historical fiction.
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Generides
Generides or Generydes is an English verse romance, originating in the English Midlands and dated to the end of the 14th century.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.
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Gottfried von Strassburg
Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan, an adaptation of the 12th-century Tristan and Iseult legend.
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Green Knight
The Green Knight is a character of the 14th-century Arthurian poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the related medieval work The Greene Knight.
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Guillaume de Palerme
Guillaume de Palerne ("William of Palerne") is a French romance poem, which has been translated into English.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Havelok the Dane
Havelok the Dane, also known as Havelok or Lay of Havelok the Dane, is a Middle English romance considered to be part of the Matter of England.
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Hereward the Wake
Hereward the Wake (pronounced /ˈhɛrɪwəd/) (c. 1035 – c.1072), (also known as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile), was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England.
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Hero
A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a real person or a main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength; the original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor.
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Hertig Fredrik av Normandie
Hertig Fredrik av Normandie ("Duke Frederick of Normandy") is an anonymous, 3,310-line Swedish translation of a lost German romance, which according to Hertig Fredrik was itself translated from French at the behest of the Emperor Otto.
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High culture
High culture encompasses the cultural products of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteem as exemplary art.
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High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that commenced around 1000 AD and lasted until around 1250 AD.
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Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is a vessel that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature.
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Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.
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Hudibras
Hudibras is an English mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler.
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Huon of Bordeaux
Huon of Bordeaux is the title character of a 13th-century French epic (chanson de geste) with romance elements.
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Ipomadon
The Anglo-Norman romance Ipomedon by Hue de Rotelande, composed near Hereford around 1180, survives in three separate Middle English versions, a long poem Ipomadon composed in tail-rhyme verse, possibly in the last decade of the fourteenth century, a shorter poem The Lyfe of Ipomydon, dating to the fifteenth century and a prose version, Ipomedon, also of the fifteenth century.
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Irony
Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.
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Italian language
Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
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Jerusalem Delivered
Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem.
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Joanot Martorell
Joanot Martorell (Gandia, south of Valencia, 1413 – 1468) was a Valencian knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, written in the Valencian vernacular (Martorell calls it vulgar llengua valenciana) and published at Valencia in 1490.
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João de Lobeira
João Pires de Lobeira (c. 1233–1285) was a Portuguese troubadour of the time of King Afonso III, who is supposed to have been the first to reduce into prose the story of Amadis de Gaula.
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John Dryden
John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.
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King Arthur
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
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King Horn
King Horn is a Middle English chivalric romance dating back to the middle of the thirteenth century.
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Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.
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Knight of the Swan
The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be asked his name.
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Knight-errant
A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature.
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La Mancha
La Mancha is a natural and historical region located on an arid but fertile elevated plateau (610 m or 2000 ft.) of central Spain, south of Madrid, from the mountains of Toledo to the western spurs of the hills of Cuenca, and bordered to the south by the Sierra Morena and to the north by the Alcarria region.
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Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette) is an Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes.
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Lancelot-Grail
The Lancelot-Grail, also known as the Prose Lancelot, the Vulgate Cycle, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle, is a major source of Arthurian legend written in French.
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Le Bone Florence of Rome
Le Bone Florence of Rome is a medieval English chivalric romance.
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur") is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Legend
Legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions perceived or believed both by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history.
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Literary genre
A literary genre is a category of literary composition.
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Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet.
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Matter of Britain
The Matter of Britain is the body of Medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain, and sometimes Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.
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Matter of France
The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is a body of literature and legendary material associated with the history of France, in particular involving Charlemagne and his associates.
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Matter of Rome
According to the medieval poet Jean Bodel, the Matter of Rome was the literary cycle made up of Greek and Roman mythology, together with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
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Medievalism
Medievalism is the system of belief and practice characteristic of the Middle Ages, or devotion to elements of that period, which has been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed)23 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
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Morgan le Fay
Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgaine, Morgain, Morgana, Morganna, Morgant, Morgane, Morgen, Morgne, Morgue and other names and spellings, is a powerful enchantress in the Arthurian legend.
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Narrative
A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images, or both.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.
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Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.
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Oberon
Oberon is a king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature.
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Occitan language
Occitan, also known as lenga d'òc (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, is a Romance language.
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Octavian (romance)
Octavian is a 14th-century Middle English verse translation and abridgement of a mid-13th century Old French romance of the same name.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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Opera seria
Opera seria (plural: opere serie; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio) is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to about 1770.
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Orlando Furioso
Orlando Furioso ("The Frenzy of Orlando", more literally "Raging Roland"; in Italian titled "Orlando furioso" as the "F" is never capitalized) is an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture.
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Paladin
The paladins, sometimes known as the Twelve Peers, were the foremost warriors of Charlemagne's court, according to the literary cycle known as the Matter of France.
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Pandosto
Pandosto: The Triumph of Time is a prose romance written by the English author Robert Greene, first published in 1588.
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Parzival
Parzival is a medieval romance written by the knight-poet Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German.
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Perceforest
The anonymous prose romance of Perceforest with lyrical interludes of poetry, in six books, appears to have been composed in French in the Low Countries between 1330 and 1344.
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Planetary romance
Planetary romance is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one or more exotic alien planets, characterized by distinctive physical and cultural backgrounds.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.
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Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century.
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Princess and dragon
Princess and dragon is a generic premise common to many legends, fairy tales, and chivalric romances.
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Princesse lointaine
A princess lointaine or princesse lointaine, (in French, "distant princess") is a stock character from medieval romances.
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Prose
Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry, where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme.
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Quest
A quest serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical.
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Realism (arts)
Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.
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Renaissance humanism
Renaissance humanism is the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
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Restoration spectacular
The Restoration spectacular, or elaborately staged machine play, hit the London public stage in the late 17th-century Restoration period, enthralling audiences with action, music, dance, moveable scenery, baroque illusionistic painting, gorgeous costumes, and special effects such as trapdoor tricks, "flying" actors, and fireworks.
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Richard I of England
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death.
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Rinaldo (opera)
Rinaldo (HWV 7) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1711, and was the first Italian language opera written specifically for the London stage.
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Robert Greene (dramatist)
Robert Greene (baptised 11 July 1558, died 3 September 1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare.
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Robert the Devil
Robert the Devil is a legend of medieval origin about a Norman knight who discovers he is the son of Satan.
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Roland
Roland (Frankish: *Hrōþiland; Latin: Hruodlandus, Rotholandus; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France.
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Roman de la Rose
Le Roman de la Rose (English: The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval French poem styled as an allegorical dream vision.
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Romance (love)
Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.
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Romance novel
Although the genre is very old, the romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass-market version.
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Romance of Horn
Romance of Horn is an Anglo-Norman literature romans d'aventure ("adventure story") tale written around 1170 by an author apparently named "Thomas".
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Romance Writers of America
Romance Writers of America (RWA) is a national non-profit genre writers association.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Roswall and Lillian
Roswall and Lillian is a medieval Scottish chivalric romance.
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Round Table
The Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate.
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Ruritanian romance
Ruritanian romance is a genre of literature, film and theatre comprising novels, stories, plays and films set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe, such as the "Ruritania" that gave the genre its name.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Scientific romance
Scientific romance is an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction.
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Seven Wise Masters
The Seven Wise Masters (also called The Seven Sages or The Seven Sages of Rome) is a cycle of stories of Sanskrit, Persian or Hebrew origins.
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Shakespeare's late romances
The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; and The Tempest.
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Sir Cleges
Sir Cleges is a medieval English verse chivalric romanceLaura A. Hibbard, Medieval Romance in England p79 New York Burt Franklin,1963 written in tail-rhyme stanzas in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century.
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Sir Degrevant
Sir Degrevant is a Middle English romance from the early fifteenth century.
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Sir Eglamour of Artois
Sir Eglamour of Artois is a Middle English verse romance that was written sometime around 1350.
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Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance of 660 lines, composed in about 1400.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English: Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt) is a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance.
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Sir Isumbras
Sir Isumbras is a medieval metrical romance written in Middle English and found in no fewer than nine manuscripts dating to the fifteenth century.
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Sir Launfal
Sir Launfal is a 1045-line Middle English romance or Breton lay written by Thomas Chestre dating from the late 14th century.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole.
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The Discarded Image
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature is non-fiction and the last book written by C. S. Lewis.
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The Girl Without Hands
"The Girl Without Hands" or "The Handless Maiden" or "The Girl With Silver Hands" or "The Armless Maiden" (Das Mädchen ohne Hände) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 31.
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The Indian Queen (play)
The Indian Queen is a play by Sir Robert Howard, written in collaboration with John Dryden, his sister's husband.
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The King of Tars
The King of Tars is a medieval English chivalric romance, an amplified version of the oldest variant found in the Reimchronik, which is found in three manuscripts including the Auchinleck manuscript.
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The Knight in the Panther's Skin
The Knight in the Panther's Skin (ვეფხისტყაოსანი literally "one with a skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustaveli.
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The Knight's Tale
"The Knight's Tale" (The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain (also commonly spelt Golagros and Gawane) is a Middle Scots Arthurian romance written in alliterative verse of 1362 lines, known solely from a printed edition of 1508 in the possession of the National Library of Scotland.
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The Man of Law's Tale
The Man of Law's Tale is the fifth of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, written around 1387.
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The Romance of the Forest
The Romance of the Forest is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe that was first published in 1791.
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The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) is an epic poem (Chanson de geste) based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne.
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The Squire of Low Degree
The Squire of Low Degree, also known as The Squyr of Lowe Degre, The Sqyr of Lowe Degre or The Sqyr of Lowe Degree, is an anonymous late Middle English or early Modern English verse romance.
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The Tale of Gamelyn
The Tale of Gamelyn is a romance written in c. 1350 in a dialect of Middle English, considered part of the Matter of England.
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The Tempest
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone.
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The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale (the Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623.
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Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge (c.1558 – September 1625) was an English physician and author during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
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Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur (originally titled, The Whole Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round table).
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Thomas of Britain
Thomas of Britain was a poet of the 12th century.
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Tirant lo Blanch
Tirant lo Blanch (modern orthography: Tirant lo Blanc) is a chivalric romance written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell, finished posthumously by his friend Martí Joan de Galba and published in the city of Valencia in 1490 as an incunabulum edition.
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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso (11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1581), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem.
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Tristan
Tristan (Latin & Brythonic: Drustanus; Trystan), also known as Tristram, is a Cornish knight of the Round Table and the hero of the Arthurian Tristan and Iseult story.
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Trojan War
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
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Valentine and Orson
Valentine and Orson is a romance which has been attached to the Carolingian cycle.
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Verse (poetry)
In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition.
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William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach (–) was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of medieval German literature.
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