The Green Knight concerns itself with honor, as does the original poem, but it also avoids half of the poem’s title: the name of the protagonist, Sir Gawain, one of the Knights of the Round Table. This is a very democratic version of that very aristocratic poem, hiding as much as possible the aristocrat’s proud claims to superiority—sir …

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