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    The document provides a selective chronology of Arthurian legend from 455 CE to 2008 CE, highlighting important literary works, references and depictions of Arthurian characters, places and stories throughout history. Some of the key entries include Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1135 work Historia Regum Britanniae which includes one of the earliest accounts of Arthur's life, Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 work Le Morte Darthur, and more modern films and television series that have adapted the Arthurian legends.

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    ARTHURIAN LEGEND 1590–6 Publication of Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: includes Prince

    - A Selective Chronology - Arthur


    1691 Henry Purcell and John Dryden, King Arthur: The British Worthy (opera)
    455–75 Arthur’s reign, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth 1730–1 Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb: satire set at Arthurian court
    537 (?539) Date of Arthur’s last battle, as mentioned in Annales Cambriae 1813 Sir Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain: Arthurian episode
    830 Nennius, Historia Brittonum: records battles of Arthur 1832 Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott: Tennyson’s first Arthurian
    11th century Probable time of composition for the earliest Arthurian tales from poem
    The Mabinogion (Peredur, Culhwch and Olwen) and Latin saints’ lives 1836–46 Lady Charlotte Guest translates The Mabinogion
    from Wales 1859–85 Tennyson, Idylls of the King
    c. 1105 Modena Cathedral archivolt depicting Arthurian scenes 1865 Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde; 1882 Parsifal (operas)
    c. 1135 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the 1889 Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur
    Kings of Britain): includes account of Arthur’s life 1922 T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    c. 1150 Geoffrey of Monmouth, Vita Merlini (Life of Merlin) 1938 T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone; reprinted 1958 as the first part of
    1155 Wace, Roman de Brut: translates Geoffrey’s Historia; first mention of The Once and Future King
    Round Table 1949 International Arthurian Society founded
    c. 1169–81 Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian romances: first mention of Camelot, 1958–9 John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur (published 1976): retelling of
    Grail, and Lancelot’s love for Guinevere Malory
    c. 1210 Layamon, Brut: first English version of Arthurian history (based on 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (film)
    Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace) 1982 Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
    1290 Edward I hosts Round Table tournament at Winchester and commissions 1982–5 Camelot 3000: sci-fi Arthurian comic strip
    Round Table 1995 Jerry Zucker, First Knight (film): Sean Connery, Julia Ormond, Richard
    c. 1390 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Gere
    Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: allusions to Arthurian characters 1998 Merlin (mini-series): Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Helena Bonham
    1469–70 Sir Thomas Malory completes Le Morte Darthur Carter, Lena Headey
    1485 First printed edition of Malory by William Caxton 2004 Antoine Fuqua, King Arthur (film): Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan
    1486 Henry VII names eldest son Arthur Gruffudd
    1534 First printed edition of Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia: questions 2007 Shrek the Third (film): Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
    historicity of Arthurian legend 2008-2012 Merlin (series): Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Angel Coulby, Katie
    McGrath

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