If we did, we might, during this holiday season, dust off Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, a 2,500-line verse narrative by a poet who lived 600 years ago and whose name we don't know.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was required reading for literature undergraduates 40 years ago, and it has stayed with me ever since, though nowadays I seldom return to the original Middle English.

But the knight Gawain wouldn't meet his most formidable adversary until the 1300s, when he faced off against a knight with green skin and green clothes in the Middle English chivalric romance Sir ...

“The Green Knight,” David Lowery’s beautiful, sometimes baffling medieval epic starring Dev Patel, has inspired equally passionate acclaim and dissent from critics and audiences. Times film ...

There have been two previous adaptations, both of which were written and directed by Stephen Weeks. First, the 1973 film Gawain and the Green Knight, starring Murray Head and Nigel Green, followed ...

Watch the classic 14th century chivalric romance poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight told in six short video clips. Suitable for English at Key Stage 2.

As played by Dev Patel in “The Green Knight” — David Lowery’s sumptuous, ragged and inventive adaptation of the anonymous 14th-century chivalric romance — this Gawain combines a ...

That romance is commonly known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the most famous and important works of English literature, a 14th-century Arthurian tale penned in Middle English that’s ...

A medieval romance in verse by an anonymous author proves a hot publishing property as the long-anticipated adaptation of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ screens in theaters nationwide.