Comments | angevin2: still more recs

angevin2

still more recs

Dec 29, 2009 17:10

Because they are less taxing than talking about MLA!

( 9 recs in the following fandoms: Blackadder, Classical Composers RPF, Cinderella, Arthurian Legend, Slings & Arrows (2 fics), Into the Woods, Child Ballads, Graceland (album), King John )

yuletide 2009, fic recs: historical, fic recs: shakespeare, fic recs: misc, fic recs: slings & arrows, fic recs

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lnhammer December 29 2009, 23:23:29 UTC

Wait, so there is a Chaucer fic? Why, why can't these things get tagged properly?

---L.

angevin2 December 30 2009, 04:58:35 UTC

The Loathly Lady story isn't exclusive to Chaucer, and there's nothing in this one that's particularly drawn from Chaucer's version.

lnhammer December 30 2009, 16:04:09 UTC

Did she appear in any other Arthurian stories? I had the impression Chaucer's was the only one.

---L.

angevin2 December 31 2009, 01:47:32 UTC

Chaucer's version isn't even the only one from his time period! It's in Gower's Confessio Amantis as well, and is apparently a fairly common folk tale (not always attached to Arthur's court). It seems like the name Dame Ragnell comes from a 15th-century romance (The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell).

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