Lancelot - Grail Intranet Web Site
Why the Lancelot-Grail?
by Alison Stones
- surviving in close to 200 copies, most of them illustrated, it was one of the most popular stories of the Middle Ages
- it addresses important themes of relevance then and now: love, loyalty, friendship, valour and bravery, daring and courage, victory and triumph; and also treachery and betrayal, failure and cowardice, surrender and ignominy, punishment, death and destruction
- its cast of characters includes personalities treated in great psychological depth and sophistication
- it also has humour, absurdity, and fantasy