Amorous Rites: Elizabethan Erotic Narrative Verse

by Sandra Clark (Editor)

For the first time in one volume, these three complete Arthurian romances have been made available in the original Middle English. Together these chronicles of heroic adventures descant on chivalrous conduct and provide a comic, magical glimpse into the legendary Arthurian world.

Genres: Classics, Poetry

138 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1994

About the author

SANDRA CLARK is Reader in Renaissance Literature at Birkbeck College at the University of London. She has previously taught at the University of Toronto and the Open University. She has written books and articles on the Elizabethan pamphleteers, early modern English playwrights including Shakespeare, Webster and Beaumont and Fletcher, and on the broadside ballad.