Sir Gawain decapitates the Green Knight in the original manuscript ... to test the knights of the Round Table and scare Queen Guinevere—the meaning behind the Green Knight is debated by scholars ...

Our loss, no doubt. 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 ...

Filmmaker David Lowery’s (“Pete’s Dragon”) latest is a mesmerizing medieval fantasy where Dev Patel’s Sir Gawain squares off against a “Lord of the Rings”-esque Green Knight.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the best stories in the whole King Arthur saga, and one of the weirdest. Composed by an anonymous poet in the late 14th century, Sir Gawain features none ...

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.

Dev Patel leads the cast of The Green Knight as Sir Gawain, the young nephew of King ... while Kate Dickie plays Queen Guinevere. Alicia Vikander plays Esel, a young woman who is in love with ...

The Green Knight is an adaptation of the famous medieval poem known as “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” As in the film, the story opens on a Christmas feast in Camelot. Everyone’s having a ...

Why, for starters, is the Green Knight green? It’s a question that’s long vexed scholars of the 14th century chivalric romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” The movie, like the epic ...

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". The story is a generally favorable account of Gawain's character, but it also lays bare the ambiguities of his position. Is Gawain's conflicted depiction in "The ...

"The Green Knight" is a real head trip. David Lowery's stylish retelling (in theaters now) of the anonymously written, 14th-century poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" follows a cocky young man ...

Simon Armitage goes on a journey to discover the language and landscape of the Arthurian romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and finds modern relevance in its hero's trials. Show more Simon ...

"The Green Knight" is a real head trip. David Lowery's stylish retelling (in theaters now) of the anonymously written, 14th-century poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" follows a cocky young ...