TRISTAN WITH THE TRISTRAN OF THOMAS PB – A. HATTO-GOTTFRIED VON STRASSBURG-A. HATTO

"One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde s hand in marriage for his uncle, King Mark. On their journey back to Mark s court, however, the pair mistakenly drink a love-potion intended for the king and his young bride, and are instantly possessed with an all-consuming love for each another – a love they are compelled to conceal by a series of subterfuges that culminates in tragedy. Von Strassburg s work is acknowledged as the greatest rendering of this legend of medieval lovers, and went on to influence generations of writers and artists and inspire Richard Wagner s Tristan and Isolde."