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Contains detailed, eyewitness accounts of the most memorable exploits of of a man fit to be memorialised as a model of ideal knighthood.

Manor Farm is a sequel to the widely acclaimed Animal Farm by George Orwell that covered tumultuous events during the early twentieth century. A great deal has happened since then. Manor Farm continues the allegorical tale from the publication of Animal Farm to the present day. It is dedicated to George Orwell, 2013 is the 110th anniversary of his birth. Nigel Bryant is a management consultant specialising in the application of psychology in ...

A translation of three works from the second half of the 13th century: Rutebeuf's Renart le Bestourné, the anonymous Le Couronnement de Renart and Jacquemart Gielée's Renart le Nouvel. These savage and highly entertaining satires are in a league of their own, and Renart le Nouvel contains important music which is reproduced in the text.

First translation of two vivid accounts of French thirteenth-century tournaments, rich in detail and an impassioned defence of tournaments and their importance.

First translation of two vivid accounts of French thirteenth-century tournaments, rich in detail and an impassioned defence of tournaments and their importance.

The career of William Marshal (1146/7-12), who rose from being the penniless, landless younger son of a middle-ranking nobleman to be regent of England in the minority of Henry III, is one of the most extraordinary stories of the Middle Ages. His biography was completed shortly after his death by a household minstrel and we are fortunate that it su

Includes 8 traditional fairy tales, with an introduction by Marina Warner.

Modern prose translation of work originally in French.

The Stone Age monuments at Avebury in Wiltshire are world-famous, attracting thousands of visitors each year. Two of the most dramatic are the enormous burial chamber known as the West Kennet Long Barrow, and Silbury Hill, the largest man-made mound in Europe. Less well known is Silbury's 'sister' mound at Marlborough a few miles due east, but this is nothing less than the legendary burial place of Merlin. These extraordinary sites are the key...

A dramatization of Dickens's classic novel, requiring a cast of between 11 and 30. The complex story moves forward quickly with the use of open staging.

Vivid translation of one of the earliest and most important Grail romances.

Constructed from the many and often contradictory Grail legends, here is a single, consistent and accessible narrative for the general reader - now available in paperback.

Many consider The Tempest to be Shakespeare's "crowning glory". Cast onto the waters by his power-hungry brother, Prospero has developed strong magical powers that he now uses to teach a lesson to those that have previously wronged him and his daughter Miranda.Designed to encourage readers to enjoy classical literature, titles in the Classical Comics range stay true to the original vision of the authors. They also offer alternative text versio...

Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs". Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material, but also from romances about Alexander the Gr...

A highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work.

The Tempest, " with its vibrant characters like the sorcerer Prospero, the magical sprite Ariel, and the twisted Caliban, and its colorful island setting and dramatic plot, is one of Shakespeare's most alluring plays. In this teaching resource, Kornel Kossuth shows young readers how to appreciate this work in a series of activities and exercises that explore Shakespeare's use of language, history, drama, and art. Illustrator Jon Haward brings ...

Told here as a unified, coherent narrative, the Grail legend reasserts its relevance as one of the great works of imaginative literature of the middle ages. Nigel Bryant's previous Arthurian books include "The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus)", "Chretien de Troyes' Perceval and its Continuations", and "Robert de Boron's Merlin and the Grail".