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Introduction: Laughing at Camelot 3

Dorsey Armstrong

Comedies of Contingency: Language and Gender in the Book of Sir Tristram 5

William Fitzhenry

King Arthur Goes to War (Singing, Dancing, and Cracking Jokes):
Marcel Varnel’s 1942 Film King Arthur Was A Gentleman 17

Kevin J. Harty

Comedic Preludes to Lancelot’s ‘Unhappy’ Life in Malory’s Morte Darthur 26

Janet Jesmok

The Animation of Marginal Decorations in Monty Python and the Holy Grail 45

Martine Meuwese

A Fool of a Knight, a Knight of a Fool: Malory’s Comic Knights 59
Gergely Nagy

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Roberta Anderson and Dominic Aidan Bellinger, eds., Medieval Worlds: A Sourcebook 75

Elizabeth S. Sklar

Dorsey Armstrong, Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur 77

Felicia Ackerman

Dorsey Armstrong, Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur 79

Janet Jesmok

Keith Busby, gen. ed., and Roger Dalrymple, assoc. ed., Arthurian Literature, XX 81

Donald L. Hoffman

Diana Durham, The Return of King Arthur: Finishing the Quest for Wholeness,
Inner Strength, and Self-Knowledge 82

Peter H. Goodrich

Sharon Farmer and Carol Braun Pasternack, eds., Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages 84

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Allen J. Frantzen, Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War 86

Jeanne Fox-Friedman

Patricia Ingham and Michelle R. Warren, eds., Postcolonial Moves: Medieval through Modern 88

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Richard J. Moll, Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England 91

Donald L. Hoffman

Richard J. Moll, Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England 92

K.S. Whetter

Eve Salisbury, Georgina Donavin, and Llewelyn Price, eds., Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts 94

Christine M. Rose

Stephen H.A. Shepherd, ed., Le Morte Darthur or The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur
and of His Noble Knyghtes of The Rounde Table: Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism 96

C.M. Adderley

The Round Table 99