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kashilascorner · 2 months

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On one hand I'm grateful that Renee L Curtis decided to keep focused and still included, even if only as summaries, information from the rest of the text. On the other hand I'm extremely sad all the juicy bits of Tristan and his gang (Palamedes, Dinadan, Lamorak, etc) are barely there, especially because this is quite surely the most accessible (and it's barely accessible at all) and complete rendition of the prose Tristan in English

#on a more personal level i judt think the text suffers from having too much tristan and iseult. the reason why the text drags on is that #there are a thousand thjng in the middle just because. having it drag on when we're actually just keeping up with tristan and iseult #themselves... well it really starts to drag #laura reads #prose tristan #absolutely crazy that this text is in so many manuscripts yet there is only 1 critical edition in french and like. 2 abridged in english #there is also a summary (?) in french that's like 500 pages long lol but I'll get juicy bits from there if my #life depends on it

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