CHARLOTTE SPIVACK is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has published widely in the fields of fantasy and medieval literature, and is the author of Merlin vs. Faust (1992), Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy(Greenwood, 1987)Ursula K. LeGuin (1984)and The Comedy of Evil on Shakespeare's Stage (1978).ROBERTA LYNNE STAPLES is Associate Professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She has published numerous articles on Arthurian and English literature.

• PrefaceIntroductionMerlin, the Archetypal WizardMorgan le Fay: Goddess or Witch?Sir Kay: Seneschal or Trickster?Gawain: Arthur's Hawk of MayThe Fortunes of Guenevere: Once and Future QueenThe Metamorphosis of LancelotArthur's Shadow: MordredArthur of Britain: "The Man within the King"AfterwordBibliography

CHARLOTTE SPIVACK is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has published widely in the fields of fantasy and medieval literature, and is the author of Merlin vs. Faust (1992), Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy(Greenwood, 1987)Ursula K. LeGuin (1984)and The Comedy of Evil on Shakespeare's Stage (1978).ROBERTA LYNNE STAPLES is Associate Professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She has published numerous articles on Arthurian and English literature.

• PrefaceIntroductionMerlin, the Archetypal WizardMorgan le Fay: Goddess or Witch?Sir Kay: Seneschal or Trickster?Gawain: Arthur's Hawk of MayThe Fortunes of Guenevere: Once and Future QueenThe Metamorphosis of LancelotArthur's Shadow: MordredArthur of Britain: "The Man within the King"AfterwordBibliography

CHARLOTTE SPIVACK is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has published widely in the fields of fantasy and medieval literature, and is the author of Merlin vs. Faust (1992), Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy(Greenwood, 1987)Ursula K. LeGuin (1984)and The Comedy of Evil on Shakespeare's Stage (1978).ROBERTA LYNNE STAPLES is Associate Professor of English at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She has published numerous articles on Arthurian and English literature.

• PrefaceIntroductionMerlin, the Archetypal WizardMorgan le Fay: Goddess or Witch?Sir Kay: Seneschal or Trickster?Gawain: Arthur's Hawk of MayThe Fortunes of Guenevere: Once and Future QueenThe Metamorphosis of LancelotArthur's Shadow: MordredArthur of Britain: "The Man within the King"AfterwordBibliography