John Steinbeck goes to great lengths to describe the food, drink, dancing, and festivities, all of which bore the guest of honor: weary of fame and adventure, Lancelot hardly sees himself as the perfect knight the revelers make him out to be.
John Steinbeck’s last, unfinished written work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, was posthumously published in 1976. In part, Steinbeck set out to retell the exploits of the Knights of the Roundtable so that his sons could enjoy reading about them as much as he had enjoyed the stories growing up.
Like much of his other work, Steinbeck's King Arthur is characterized by the author's stark, simple style and detailed characterization. The story offers a different, more nuanced perspective of the love triangle between King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot.
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