TEXTS Medieval Romance Fragments Chretien de Troyes, Conte del Graal (c. 1160-1180) Wauchier de Denain, First Continuation (c. 1180-1200) Robert de Boron, Didot-Perceval (c. 1191-1202) The Mabinogion, Peredur (c. 1200) Perlesvaus; The High History of the Grail (c. 1200) Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival (c. 1217) The Quest for the Holy Grail Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur (1470) Modern Fragments Robert Browning, 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' (1855) Paul Verlaine, Parsifal (1886) Jessie Weston, Sir Perceval (1896) Madison Cawein, Wasteland (1913) T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) T. H. White, The Once and Future King (1939) C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (1946) Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) David Lodge, Small World (1984) Donald Barthelme, Arthur Rex (1985) Account from the film "The Fisher King" (1991) Tim Powers, Last Call (1992) Return to the Fisher King Main Page