Cligès
Also known as Cliges, Cligés
Cligès (also Cligés) is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice.
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- Author
- Chrétien de Troyes
- First published
- 1888
- Editions
- 15
- Subjects
- Arthurian romances, Translations into English, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Romances, Chretien, de troyes, active 12th century, Medieval Literature, Romances--translations into english, Knights and knighthood--romances
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Key facts
- Medieval text.name
- Cligès
- Medieval text.author(s)
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Medieval text.language
- Old French
- Medieval text.date
- 1176
- Medieval text.verse form
- Octosyllable rhyming couplets
- Medieval text.length
- 6,664 lines
- Medieval text.genre
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Cligès (also Cligés) is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice.
==Background== Cligès has come down to us through seven manuscripts and various fragments. The poem comprises 6,664 octosyllables in rhymed couplets. Prose versions also exist since at least the 15th century.