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Introduction 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

Reviews

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

Dorsey Armstrong, Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur
Felicia Ackerman 77
Janet M. Jesmok 79

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 82
Peter H. Goodrich

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

Alan 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
Donald L. Hoffman 91
K.S. Whetter 92

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 Knyghts of the Rounde Table:
Authoritative Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism 96
C.M. Adderley

The Round Table 99