In seven pages this paper analyzes how in their texts featuring the Arthurian legends authors Bradley, White, Tennyson, and Malory depicted women. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography.
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man, other than he was a tribal chieftain, and an important one at that, during Englands ancient days - around the time of the fall of the Roman Empire. Arthur
was renowned, according to ancient texts, with his skill with a sword, yet not much exists about him as a person. Still, much has been written about the man himself,
his love for his best friend, Lancelot and his queen, Guinevere, the magic of the wizard, Merlin, and Arthurs formation of the courtly Knights of the Round Table. While Arthurian
legends have been dissected and put back together, so have the women in Arthurian legend been dissected and put back together. Depending on who the author or source was of
a given Arthurian tale, the main women of the story - Guinevere, Morgan le Fay, Vivien, the Lady of the Lake and others - appear as good, bad, evil -
or just plain human. The purpose of this paper is to study how literature has dealt with these damsels and to
determine if, based on the times in which Arthur was supposed to have existed, if the characterizations have some basis in fact. Cast of Characters
The earliest texts of Arthur skim over the women, focusing mainly on the achievements of King Arthur himself, and his success in battle (Collver, 2002; see also
Malcor, 2002). Sources such as Y Gododdin (600 A.D.); Historia Brittonum (around 900 A.D.) and Historia Regum Brittanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth (1138 A.D.) were focused mostly on Arthur and
his knights and their valor on the field, rather than their prowess in the arts of love (Collver, 2002; see also Malcor, 2002). While Guinevere is mentioned in a few