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Thomas Chestre was the author of a 14th-century Middle English romance ''Sir Launfal'', a verse romance of 1045 lines based ultimately on Marie de France's Breton lay ''Lanval''. He was possibly also the author of the 2200-line ''Libeaus Desconus'', a story of Sir Gawain's son Gingalain based upon similar traditions to those that inspired Renaut de Beaujeu's late-12th-century or early-13th-century Old French romance ''Le Bel Inconnu'', and also possibly of a Middle English retelling of the mid-13th-century Old French romance ''Octavian''.〔Mills, Maldwyn (Ed). 1969. ''Lybeaus Desconus.'' Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society.〕 Geoffrey Chaucer parodied ''Libeaus Desconus'', among other Middle English romances, in his Canterbury Tale of ''Sir Thopas''.〔Mills, Maldwyn (Ed). 1972. Six Middle English Romances.'' Everyman's Library, p xxvi.〕〔eChaucer – texts: http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/chaucer/texts/ct/18thop07.txt line Thop 900.〕 ==Sir Launfal== The name Thomas Chestre occurs only once in medieval writings, in the single manuscript copy that remains of the late-14th-century Middle English verse romance ''Sir Launfal''. It is found in British Library MS Cotton Caligula A.ii, fols 35v-42v, dating from the first half of the 15th century〔Laskaya, Anne and Salisbury, Eve (Eds). 1995. ''Sir Launfal:'' Introduction.〕 :”Thomas Chestre made thys tale :Of the noble knyght Syr Launfale, :Good of chyvalrye.”〔Laskaya, Anne and Salisbury, Eve (Eds). 1995. ''Sir Launfal'', lines 1039–1041.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Chestre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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