...Timothy D. O'Brien Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 English Language Notes Volume XXXIX N um ber 3 March 2002 HAND IMAGERY, MASCULINITY, AND NARRATIVE AUTHORITY IN THE BOOK OF SIR LAUNCELOT AND QUEEN GUINEVERE Perhaps the most memorable image from the Authurian...

... on the patter of the actor-clown. W ithout m entioning any particular scene, Frank Kermode downplays the significance of the witty exchanges in 3.5, when he says The Merchant of Venice has some passages we m ight wish away the clowning of Launcelot Gobbo is of much the same kind, though less amusing than...

...Lisa Hopkins Copyright © 2004 Regents of the University of Colorado 2004 March 2004 23 12 The Image ofIdleness, 53-61. 13 The story is reminiscent of a story told of Sir Launcelot in Malory s Morte Darthur. See Eugene Vinaver (ed Malory: Works, Oxford Standard Authors (Oxford etc.: Oxford UP...

... in the manuscript shows signs of scribal correction to or from corsse. 6 Surely Cooper is correct; Malory has an eye attuned to pathos (as in the death of Elaine of Ascolot for the love of Launcelot), and the idea of Isode s dying Juliet-like on the body of h er lover 2 English Language Notes is powerfully...

... Verlag, 1971), 294. All references are to this edi­ tion. March 2004 23 12 The Image ofIdleness, 53-61. 13 The story is reminiscent of a story told of Sir Launcelot in Malory s Morte Darthur. See Eugene Vinaver (ed Malory: Works, Oxford Standard Authors (Oxford etc.: Oxford UP, 1977), A Noble Tale...

... Launcelot and èraydez full euen 2074 To sir Lucius the forde, and fothelye hym hyttez; / / /1 / Even though lines 1066, 1567, and 2073 have only two alliterat­ ing syllables, they have a stressed syllable th at alliterates with th at of the subsequent line.22 Due to the successive use o f the same letter...