Tristan and Isolde

A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the 12th century to 2001, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film. The nineteen essays are in English, revised, and "classic".

Joan Tasker Grimbert is Professor of French at Catholic University and author of many articles on medieval French literature and Arthurian romance.

Preface, Norris J. Lacy Introduction, Joan Tasker Grimbert Acknowledgements Select Bibliography Tristan: The Celtic and Oriental Material Re-examined, W.J. McCann Love and the New Patriarchy: Tristan and Isolde, Leslie W. Rabine How Lovers Lie Together: Infidelity and Fictive Discourse in the Roman de Tristan, E. Jane Burns The Representation of the Lover's Death: Thomas' Tristan as Open Text, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner The Glass Palace in the Folie d'Oxford, Jean-Charles Payen Tristan the Artist in Gottfried's Poem, W.T.H. Jackson Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan and the Arthurian Tradition. William C. McDonald La Parole amoureuse:Amorous Discourse in the Prose Tristan, Emmanuéle Baumgartner Radix Amoris: The Travola Ritonda and Its Response to Dante's Paolo and Francesca, Donald L. Hoffman Malory's Tale of Sir Tristram: Source and Setting Reconsidered, Dhira B. Mahoney Tristan in Medieval Art, Julia Walworth Swinburne's Tristram ofLyonesse: Visionary and Courtly Epic, Anthony H. Harrison That Most Beautiful of Dreams: Tristram and Isoud in British Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Christine Poulson Wagner's Tristan and Isolde: Opera as Symphonic Poem, Joseph Kerman Wagner and Decadence, Raymond Furness This Too You Ought to Read: Bédier's Roman de Tristan et Iseut, Edward J. Gallagher Tristram the Transcendent, Frederic Yves Carpenter Cocteau's Tristan and Iseut: A Case of Overmuch Respect, Stephen Maddux Tristan and Isolde in Modern Literature: L'éternal retour, Michael S. Batts