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Tristan

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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Tristan Information
1,292 words, approx. 4 pages
Sir Tristan (Latin/Brythonic: Drustanus; Welsh: Drystan; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc.) is one of the main characters of the Tristan and Iseult story, a Cornish hero and one of the Knights of the Round Table featuring in the Matter of Britain....


News and Journals
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Reuters North American News Service
La Scala opens new season with Wagner's "Tristan"
12/6/2007: 378 words, approx. 1 pages
MILAN, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Milan's La Scala opens its new opera season on Friday with Richard Wagner's five-hour-plus spectacle "Tristan and Isolde". The gala event in the historic heart of Italy's fashion and financial capital is as important for the performance as it...
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AP News
Review: 'Tristan Project' comes to N.Y.
5/6/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pages
Images of fire, floods and even naked bodies flash on a giant video screen above the stage as the concert hall fills with the sounds of Richard Wagner's doomed lovers playing out their tragic story.If you kept your eyes shut at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by E. M. R. Ditmas
17,954 words, approx. 60 pages
In the essay below, Ditmas outlines the evidence for Béroul's knowledge of contemporary Cornwall, citing details of Cornish history and topography interwoven into the romance.
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Critical Essay by James Douglas Bruce
17,401 words, approx. 58 pages
In the following essay, Bruce maintains that most modern critics agree that a “single primitive Tristan romance” is the source of all extant versions. Bruce then surveys those versions, and discusses the plot of the Tristan legend and its similarity to the Irish Diarmaid and Grainne legend.
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Critical Essay by Alberto Varvaro
12,564 words, approx. 42 pages
In the following excerpt from his Beroul's Romance of Tristran, originally published in Italian in 1963, Varvaro examines the episodic structure of Tristran, noting that individual episodes are often preceded and followed by narrative pauses that serve to emphasize Béroul's theme in that section.
 


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