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  2. Perceval, the Story of the Grail - Wikipedia

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    Perceval, the Story of the Grail (French: Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is the unfinished fifth verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, written by him in Old French in the late 12th century. Later authors added 54,000 more lines to the original 9,000 in what are known collectively as the Four Continuations , [ 1 ] as well as other related texts.

  3. Richard Perceval Graves - Wikipedia

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    Graves is the author of some nineteen books, including biographies of T. E. Lawrence, A. E. Housman, the Powys brothers (John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys) and Richard Hughes. He has written a number of other books on a variety of subjects, and collaborated on several other publishing projects.

  4. Percival - Wikipedia

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    Richard Monaco's 1977 book Parsival: Or, a Knight's Tale is a re-telling of the Percival legend. [20] Éric Rohmer's 1978 film Perceval le Gallois is an eccentrically staged interpretation of Chrétien's original poem. [21] John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur retells Le Morte d'Arthur and gives Percival (Perceval) a leading role.

  5. Sir Perceval of Galles - Wikipedia

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    Sir Perceval of Galles is a Middle English Arthurian verse romance whose protagonist, Sir Perceval , first appeared in medieval literature in Chrétien de Troyes' final poem, the 12th-century Old French Conte del Graal, well over one hundred years before the composition of this work.

  6. Richard Percivale - Wikipedia

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    He was the eldest son and heir of George Perceval (c1532–1601) (alias Percival, etc.) of Sydenham, near Bridgwater, Somerset, by his wife Elizabeth Bampfylde, a daughter of Sir Edward Bampfylde (d.1528) [3] of Poltimore, Devon and Elizabeth Wadham.

  7. Perceval Maitland Laurence - Wikipedia

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    Perceval Maitland Laurence was born on 20 April 1854 [1] in Woking the eldest son of Perceval Laurence, a clergyman, and Isabella Sarah Moorsom. [2] One of his brothers was Henry Hamilton Laurence, a graduate of New College, Oxford, and a barrister-at-law at Georgetown, Guyana.

  8. John Thomas Perceval - Wikipedia

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    Perceval befriended another Bethlem inmate, surgeon Arthur Legent Pearce, and published a volume of his poetry. [12] As well as publishing books and pamphlets on asylums, Perceval published a pamphlet criticising the new Poor Law and was elected to the Kensington Board of Guardians, a position which gave him access to asylums. He also delivered ...

  9. Peredur son of Efrawg - Wikipedia

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    Peredur son of Efrawg is one of the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion.It tells a story roughly analogous to Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished romance Perceval, the Story of the Grail, but it contains many striking differences from that work, most notably the absence of the French poem's central object, the grail.