Medieval Adultery in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Opera and Literature (with Kat Tracey)

'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - A podcast by Richard Abels

Send us a textThis is the third of a multi-episode series in which I chat with Dr. Larissa ‘Kat’ Tracey about literary representations of medieval adultery and its reality. In this episode Kat and I survey and discuss the major nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary treatments of medieval adultery, focusing on the stories of La(u)ncelot and Guinevere and of Tristan/Tristram and Isolde/Isolt/Iseult The episode begins with an opera, Richard Wagner’s extremely influential retelling of ...