Joseph Bédier

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult - Joseph Bédier - The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult. The narrative predates and most likely influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, and has had a substantial impact on Western art and the idea of romantic love and literature.

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

Joseph Bédier

The romance of Tristan and Iseult

isolde is so wild lmao. the first time she "officially" meets tristan she tries to kill him with his own sword WHILE HE'S NAKED IN A TUB, then she randomly orders some guys to assassinate her bff and gets angry when they actually tell her they did(????) and oh let's not forget the guy who had a crush on her and swore he'd die for her, to which she quite literally replied "then die"

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“I would rather beg my life long and live of roots and herbs with Iseult than, lacking her, be king of a wide kingdom.”

[Read this for my Europe Lit. Class] Contrary to what the narrator insists, this is less dolorous a tale but more a forthright sadism (unappealing, at that).

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Joseph Bedier

A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly law has inspired artists from Matthew Arnold to Richard Wagner. But nowhere has it been retold with greater eloquence and dignity than in Joseph Bédier's edition, which weaves several medieval sources into a seamless whole, elegantly translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld.

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

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