Noble and Joyous Histories

This book covers the many branches of the romance tradition in the central period of English literature, from the major alliterative works to the Renaissance and beyond. It includes essays on Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Wife of Bath's Tale, on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, on Malory's Morte Darthur, on burlesque romance, on Spencer's Faerie Queene, on Sidney's Arcadia, and on romance epic in the seventeenth century.