The Idylls of the Queen: Difference between revisions

Every chapter has a direct quotation from Malory at its beginning, and, as a whole, the novel sticks to Malory's version in every detail, including the names of minor knights and ladies and the exact chronology of events (though not the religious position - e.g. in Karr's novel the hermits are crazy old men, very much unlike Malorian majestic and omniscient interpreters of dreams).

 

 

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Malory's version of the story is 6 chapters; Karr's is 33, plus an epilogue. Malory has Guinevere saved by a ''deus ex machina'' courtesy of the Lady of the Lake; Karr shows Kay and Mordred having to go to a lot of trouble to make the ''deus ex machina'' possible.