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A knight and the title character of the comic strip. Sir Balin: Arthurian legend: A knight of King Arthur's court before the Round Table existed. Bedivere: Arthurian legend: A Knight of the Round Table. Sir Toby Belch: Twelfth Night: The uncle of Olivia. Black Knight: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: A knight whom King Arthur fights to cross a ...
Queen, in Cymbeline, is the scheming wife of the title character, who attempts to manipulate events so that her son, Cloten, inherits the throne. Three Queens, plead to Theseus to intercede with the tyrant Creon, who has killed their husbands in battle, in The Two Noble Kinsmen. Queen Eleanor is the mother of John in King John. She takes a ...
Howard Pyle, too, conflates Elaine of Corbenic with Elaine of Astolat in his Arthurian book series. Elaine also appears as a character in The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley . In this version, she tricks Lancelot with the help of Morgaine into sleeping with her by making him believe she was Gwenhwyfar .
This category pertains to women entitled to the courtesy title of Lady through marriage to a British knight. (Substantive knighthoods, not honorary.) (Substantive knighthoods, not honorary.) Wives of men who were already British peers when they received knighthoods should not be included.
Lionesse by Arthur Rackham for Alfred W. Pollard's The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1917). In some versions of Arthurian legend, Lynette (alternatively known as Linnet, Linette, Lynet, Lynette, Lyonet) is a haughty noble lady who travels to King Arthur's court seeking help for her beautiful sister Lyonesse (also Linesse, Lioness, Lionesse, Lyones, Lyonorr, Lyonors ...
The loathly lady (Welsh: dynes gas, Motif D732 in Stith Thompson's motif index), is a tale type commonly used in medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale. [1] The motif is that of a woman who appears unattractive (ugly, loathly ) but undergoes a transformation upon being approached by a man in spite of ...
Sanctuary. Originally published 1903. Sanctuary is the story of Kate Orme, who married a wealthy, albeit amoral man named Denis.After they have a child, Dick, Denis dies suddenly and Kate becomes ...
A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal