Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as translated by Marie Boroff The origin of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is obscure. Although nothing is known about the author, a number of educated guesses can be made based on the one surviving manuscript of the...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th century alliterative chivalric romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. The poem survives on a single manuscript, the Cotton Nero A.x., along with three pieces of...

This article turns a queer eye upon Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to suggest that categories are continually elided through the workings of a perverse dynamics whose touchstone is not Gawain and the Green Knight as the title might indicate, but the semi-visible...

When the Green Knight arrives at King Arthur's court, he is brandishing a holly branch in one hand and an axe in the other (206-08). (1) The axe is the very last property of the Green Knight to be elaborated upon, and it...

In the following essays, Sadowski examines the significance of the color green to medieval readers and discusses the ideas of ritual beheading and psychological death.

In the following essays, Morgan examines how the Gawain-poet demonstrates nobility through character, rather than by action; contends that Gawain's confession is truly pious; and explores the themes of sin and repentance in the work..

In the following essay, Benson explores the influence of common literary conventions from the romance tradition on setting, action, and characterizations in the Gawain-poet's works.

Provides an in-depth analysis of the early English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It talks about the metaphors used in the book and concentrates primarily on explaining why the author chooses description to advance plot.

Essay compares the portrayal of women in the medieval narratives of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Lanval."

Discusses the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Describes it as a religious allegory full of Christian symbolism with the central message of sin, forgiveness, and redemption.