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- Malory reaches his readers by relying on the simplicity of spoken language, offering long passages of dialogue and direct address. He often deploys parallel and paratactic phrases (joined by “and” and “but”).
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Mar 25, 2024 · 1450 - 1500. Notable Works: “Le Morte Darthur”. Thomas Malory (flourished c. 1470) was an English writer whose identity remains uncertain but whose name is famous as that of the author of Le Morte Darthur, the first prose account in English of the rise and fall of the legendary king Arthur and the fellowship of the Round Table.
Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources. The most popular version of Le Morte d'Arthur was published by the famed London printer William Caxton in 1485.
- c. 1393 or 1425, England
- Knight, writer
- c. 1470 or later
Apr 18, 2012 · Writing from prison, Malory adapts a bewilderingly wide variety of sources – including English histories, books of prophecy, popular romances and prestigious French Arthurian cycles – to produce a text that is often seen as the point of inception for modern-day Arthurian storytelling.
Apr 12, 2019 · Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415-1471 CE) was an English knight during the War of the Roses (1455-1487 CE) best known for his highly influential work of medieval literature, Le Morte D'Arthur regarded as the first novel in English, the first in western literature, and the most comprehensive treatment of the Arthurian Legend.
- Joshua J. Mark
Jan 11, 2018 · His prose style achieves a leveling effect, refraining from distinguishing characters by distinctive speech patterns and presenting actions and motives even-handedly, without a glance at analysis or consequences of sometimes glaring contradictions.
Although few critics would argue that Malory was the most talented writer of his generation—his style is too often untidy and his work suffers from an overall roughness—he is undoubtedly a capable master of the English language.
Jan 13, 2014 · Less provided with footnotes and rigorous scholarship than Field’s biography, this study tills no new ground beyond Hardyment’s vigorous writing style and conjectural reconstructions of occurrences in Malory’s life—for example, his death and interment in the St. Francis Chapel of Greyfriars Convent, across from Newgate Gaol (pp. 462 ...
