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â€˜The Canterbury Tales: Part Oneâ€™ & â€˜The Canterbury Tales: Part Twoâ€™, Perth Fringe Festival 2013

This production by theatre company KNUTS is a modern adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in two parts. Adapted by Stephen Quinn and directed by Stephen Lee, it transposes stories from Chaucer’s original text into a…

"Requiescat" by Briton RiviÃ¨re

This oil on canvas painting by English artist Briton Rivière was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (from the artist) in 1897-1898. Completed in 1888, it depicts an armoured medieval knight lying supine on top of a wooden bed and…

Tags: Armor, Armour, art, bed, bloodhound, breastplate, burial rites, byrnie, chain mail, chainmail, coif, couter, cuisses, death, dog, epitaph, greaves, hauberk, helmet, hood, knight, mail, maille, pauldron, plate armour, poleyn, rerebrace, rest, sabaton, shynbald, soul, vambrace, wreath

‘On Keira’, The Bulletin, 16 June 1910

This intensely nostalgic medieval poem by E. J. Brady “is most distinctive for its unapologetic insertion of the chivalric into the local”, which becomes the source of unintended humour (Louise D’Arcens, Old Songs in the Timeless…

Tags: Armour, chivalry, death, E. J. Brady (1869-1952), Gerringong, humour, Illawarra region, knight, loss, love, Mt Keira, NSW, old age, regret, Shoalhaven, Wollongong escarpment, youth

Queen Guenever as a nun

This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Maloryâ€™s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte dâ€™Arthur. Upon…

How Sir Bedivere cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water

This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Maloryâ€™s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte dâ€™Arthur.…

A Bereaved Empire

In this article upon the death of Queen Victoria (on 22 January 1901), her reign is described as a period in which â€œwe took a sudden step from medieval darkness to the metaphorically blinding brilliancy of the dawn of the twentieth…

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