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    Review: Green Knight - a mediaeval lady's real thoughts on knighthood and chivalry
    Michael Smith, Author, Translator, Printmaker
    • Jul 9, 2019
    • 6 min

    Review: Green Knight - a mediaeval lady's real thoughts on knighthood and chivalry

    A review of Dr Debbie Cannon's magnificent play about Lady Bertilak and her love for Sir Gawain - as seen from the point of view of The
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    Help bring Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to a new audience!
    Michael Smith, printmaker, Mythical Britain
    • Apr 1, 2017
    • 2 min

    Help bring Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to a new audience!

    You can help bring a brand new, beautifully illustrated edition of Sir Gawain and the Green knight to a new audience.
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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - recreating in linocut the characters of Cotton Nero A.x
    Michael Smith, Mythical Britain
    • Mar 30, 2016
    • 5 min

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - recreating in linocut the characters of Cotton Nero A.x

    Background In a glass case in the British Library in London can be found one of the true gems of English literature, a book now known as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and once part of a collection of the antiquarian and bibliophile, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, MP. Cotton collected his library of ancient texts in the late 16th and early 17th century; his foresight was to preserve a corpus of literature which by 1757 was acquired by the Kingdom of Great Britain to become the ba
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    Original linocut prints, books  and greetings cards featuring a range of mediaeval themes including: the Battle of Agincourt; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; King Arthur;;Stonehenge; Viking art; Saxon art; the Sutton Hoo helmet; medieval animals; castles; medieval myths and legends; historic monuments and so much more!

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