Life:
a1400	born in Warwickshire.
1415	in military service with the Earl of Warwick at Calais
1433/4	heir of the family estate at Newbold Revel, Warwickshire
1445	member of parliament for his shire
1451	arrested for the first time
till 1470	periods of imprisonment and periods of freedom interchanged; Malory was excluded from several royal pardons
1469/70	finished Le Morte Darthur
1471	died on March 14; buried in the chapel of St Francis at the Grey Friars near Newgate in the suburbs of London

STRUCTURE OF LE MORTE DARTHUR:

According to Vinaver Le Morte Darthur consists of eights separate romances. However, Caxton, and after him several scholars like Lumiansky, hold that the text is structured in twenty-one books which make up a singular long narrative.

Vinaver = Caxton: Content I = 1-4: King Arthurs Birth and His Rise II = 5: King Arthur and Emperor Lucius III = 6: Sir Lancelot du Lake IV = 7: Sir Gareth of Orkney V = 8-12: Sir Tristram de Lyones VI = 13-17: The Holy Grail VII = 18-19: Lancelot and Guenever VIII = 20-21: The Death of Arthur

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