Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Erec and Enide
Cliges
The Knight of the Cart
The Knight With the Lion
The Story of the Grail
Appendix: William of England
Variant Readings of the Manuscript
A Bibliography of Texts and Critical Studies
An Index of Proper Names

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David Staines is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, widely published scholar, and general editor of the New Canadian Library.

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Chretien is where the literary tradition of the Arthurian romance can be seen to begin. . . . His poems are the earliest we have that portray knights errant questing through dangerous forests to challenge unknown opponents and to learn the meaning of love. . . . Staines [also] provides the first, and only, English translation of "Guillaume d'Angeleterre" [and] it is very good to have it available.
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