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Article: A WRITE ROGUE ' Cut-throat bandit behind King Arthur's tale of chivalry.
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2000
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He was the man who wrote Britain's best-known tale of chivalry and love - but in real life he was a rapist and a robber, a bully and a braggart. RICHARD WILLIAMSON uncovers dark secrets at the court of King Arthur.
SIR Thomas Malory could never have guessed that his prison cell jottings would one day inspire Monty Python, Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Lord Tennyson and Richard Wagner.
But the old rogue would be demanding a share of the royalties if he was still around today - probably with a dagger held at their ...