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Generides
''Generides'' or ''Generydes'' is an English verse romance, originating in the English Midlands and dated to the end of the 14th century. It survives in two different lengthy forms.〔Ian Ousby, ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1993), p. 366.〕 The hero Generides is born as an illegitimate son of the King of India, and after adventures marries a princess of Persia and becomes ruler of both India and Persia.〔W. R. J. Barron, ''English Medieval Romance'' (1987), pp. 195-6.〕
The original, which may have been in Middle English or French, appears to have been a compilation of the fourteenth century.〔Laura A. Hibbard, ''Medieval Romance in England'' p231 New York Burt Franklin,1963〕 Despite the wide use of Eastern names and locations, these do not appear to have any particular significance, and though many analogues can (and have) been drawn between it and various Indian and Persian tales, the characters and episodes are familiar ones in medieval romances.〔Laura A. Hibbard, ''Medieval Romance in England'' p232-4 New York Burt Franklin,1963〕 As in the romance ''Guigemar'', one of the hero's parents is already married to a cruel spouse, and some of the scene suggest deliberate imitiation of that romance; as in the romance ''Erec'', the father is woken the next morning by the lady's tears.〔Laura A. Hibbard, ''Medieval Romance in England'' p234 New York Burt Franklin,1963〕 While as in ''Guigemar'', the hero is identified by a trait of his garment, in ''Generides'', the lady's tears can only be washed out by the lady herself, which suggests that poet used a fairy tale of the type of ''Black Bull of Norroway''; magical shirts are a commonplace, but only in this romance and that tale does the detail of the heroine's ability to wash clean the shirt appear.〔Laura A. Hibbard, ''Medieval Romance in England'' p234-5 New York Burt Franklin,1963〕 The lovers stay in the woods with his sword between them, which inspires their pursuer not to kill them; this is evidently imitating the scene in ''Tristan''.〔Laura A. Hibbard, ''Medieval Romance in England'' p236 New York Burt Franklin,1963〕
==Editions==
*Frederick James Furnivall (1865), ''A royal historie of the excellent knight Generides''〔(Google Books )〕 for the Roxburghe Club
*William Aldis Wright (1878), ''Generydes: a romance in seven-line stanzas'' for the Early English Text Society
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