Other Fiction Eliot, Charles W. (editor): Harvard Classics Volume 35 V1.0 2 Feb 2014

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The Harvard Classics Volume 35 (Chronicle and Romance) Published 1910

Edited by Charles W Eliot LL D. (March 20, 1834 - August 22, 1926)

Chronicle and Romance - Froissart, Mallory, Holinshed

Jean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405) was a medieval French author, who wrote several works, including Chronicles, the Meliador, a long Arthurian romance, and a large body of poetry, both short lyrical forms, as well as longer narrative poems.

The Chronicles of Froissart (or Chroniques) were written in French and chronicle the Hundred Years' War from the reign of Edward III until 1400. For centuries the Chronicles have been recognized as the chief expression of the chivalric revival of 14th-century England and France. Froissart's own experiences, combined with those of interviewed witnesses, supply much of the detail of the later books.

Sir Thomas Malory (died 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. Since the late nineteenth century he has generally been identified as Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, a knight, land-owner and Member of Parliament.

The Holy Grail from the Book of King Arthur is Malory's version of “The Noble Tale of the Sangreal” (Caxton XIII–XVII) and chronicles the adventures of numerous knights in their quest to achieve the Holy Grail. The Grail first appears in the hall of King Arthur "coverde with whyght samyte", and it miraculously produces meat and drink for the knights. Gawain is the first to declare that he "shall laboure in the Queste of the Sankgreall". He embarks on the quest in order to see the Grail "more opynly than hit hath bene shewed" before, and to gain more "metys and drynkes". Likewise, Lancelot, Percival, Bors, and Galahad undergo the quest.

William Harrison (18 April 1534 – 24 April 1593) was an English clergyman, whose Description of England was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (London 1577). His contribution to Holinshed's work drew heavily on the earlier work of John Leland.

A Description of Elizabethan England (1577) enumerated England's geographic, economic, social, religious and political features and represents an important source for historians interested in life in Elizabethan England. Harrison gathered his facts from books, letters, maps, the notes of John Leland, and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends John Stow and William Camden. He also used his own observation, experience and wit, and wrote in a conversational tone without pedantry, which has made the work a classic. The result is a compendium of Elizabethan England during the youth of William Shakespeare. "No work of the time contains so vivid and picturesque a sketch," was the assessment of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

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