Tristan with the Tristan of Thomas Strassburg Gottfried Von
Tristan with the Tristan of Thomas Strassburg Gottfried Von One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand…
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Tristan with the Tristan of Thomas Strassburg Gottfried Von
One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. On their journey back to Mark's court, however, the pair mistakenly drink a love-potion intended for the king and his young bride, and are instantly possessed with an all-consuming love for each another - a love they are compelled to conceal by a series of subterfuges that culminates in tragedy. By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde's hand in marriage for his uncle, King Mark.
Von Strassburg's work is acknowledged as the greatest rendering of this legend of medieval lovers, and went on to influence generations of writers and artists and inspire Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the
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