Desire, Consent and Misogyny in Post-medieval Adaptations of the Pelleas and Ettarde Story
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Hannah Piercy
Abstract
Pelleas and Ettarde may not be particularly well-known figures today, but in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, following the publication of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Pelleas and Ettarre’ idyll, they were included or even centred in a number of Arthurian poems, plays and novels. This article explores the changing representations of Pelleas and Ettarde in post-medieval adaptations. Why do writers choose to retell and adapt this story? What kinds of intertextual connections are uncovered by focusing on these particular Arthurian afterlives? And how do modern writers reshape this story in response to contemporary perspectives on desire, consent and misogyny? Drawing upon examples from fourteen canonical and lesser-known works, this essay charts the post-medieval popularity of this story, which offers a valuable case study for understanding the changing representation of desire, consent and misogyny in modern Arthuriana.
© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Editorial
- Guest Editors’ Foreword: Arthurian Medievalism
- Desire, Consent and Misogyny in Post-medieval Adaptations of the Pelleas and Ettarde Story
- Notes Towards a Close Reading of David Lowery’s 2021 Film The Green Knight
- ‘An Ancient Procession’: Memory, Myth and Movement in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
- Restorying Arthurian Legend: Space, Place and Time in Once & Future and Legendborn
- Deviant Characters and the Limits of Inventio in ‘Le Chevalier et la Charrette’
- Obituary
- Geoffrey Ashe (1923–2022)
- Simon Gaunt (1959–2021)
- Willem Pieter Gerritsen (1935–2019)
- Douglas Kelly (1934–2022)
- Angus Johnston Kennedy (1940–2021)
- Nigel F. Palmer (1946–2022)
- Ursula Schulze (1936–2020)
- Fiona Tolhurst (1968–2021)
- Notices
- Biennial JIAS Essay Prize Competition 2023
- XXVIIth International Arthurian Congress, Aix-en-Provence, France, 11–18 July 2024
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Editorial
- Guest Editors’ Foreword: Arthurian Medievalism
- Desire, Consent and Misogyny in Post-medieval Adaptations of the Pelleas and Ettarde Story
- Notes Towards a Close Reading of David Lowery’s 2021 Film The Green Knight
- ‘An Ancient Procession’: Memory, Myth and Movement in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
- Restorying Arthurian Legend: Space, Place and Time in Once & Future and Legendborn
- Deviant Characters and the Limits of Inventio in ‘Le Chevalier et la Charrette’
- Obituary
- Geoffrey Ashe (1923–2022)
- Simon Gaunt (1959–2021)
- Willem Pieter Gerritsen (1935–2019)
- Douglas Kelly (1934–2022)
- Angus Johnston Kennedy (1940–2021)
- Nigel F. Palmer (1946–2022)
- Ursula Schulze (1936–2020)
- Fiona Tolhurst (1968–2021)
- Notices
- Biennial JIAS Essay Prize Competition 2023
- XXVIIth International Arthurian Congress, Aix-en-Provence, France, 11–18 July 2024
