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Les Chevaliers de la Table ronde (Cocteau)

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Les Chevaliers de la Table ronde (engl. The Knights of The Round Table) is a play written by French dramatist Jean Cocteau, written in 1937.

In the play Merlin is an old and cruel enchanter, who manipulates the the court of Arthur with the help of a demon.[1] [2]

It was translated into English by W.H.Auden as The Knights of the Round Table. Translation has been published in The Infernal Machine and Other Plays (1963). The Auden translation included alternate passages for radio. BBC did broadcast the translated play in May 1951, and it was repeated July 1951 and April 1953.[3]

References

  1. ^ Arlette Bouloumié: Le mythe de Merlin dans la littérature française du xxe siècle (Jean Cocteau, René Barjavel, Jacques Roubaud, Théophile Briant, Michel Rio), published in Cahier de recherches médiévales et humanistes, no 11, 2004. p181–193.
  2. ^ Roger Simpson: Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922–2005. DS Brewer, 2008. p40–41.
  3. ^ Roger Simpson: Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922–2005. DS Brewer, 2008. p40–41.


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