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Tree: Romanesque harp accompaniment Aucassin: Aucassin and Nicolette together again Aucassin: Group performance Aucassin: Torelore Beowulf: Beowulf boasts; Hrothgar recalls Grendel’s assaults Beowulf: Beowulf fights Grendel Beowulf: Beowulf hunts Grendel’s mother Beowulf: Death of Beowulf and the dragon Beowulf: Dragon awakes Beowulf: Grendel comes Beowulf: In off the moors comes Grendel Beowulf: The grim demon arrives Beranger of the Long Ass Butcher: Group performance Butcher: Solo performance Cid: The Carrión Brothers plot to kill their wives, The Cid’s daughters Cid: The Cid and his beard Cid: The Cid embraces his wife and daughters, and leaves Castile Cid: The Cid prepares joyfully to go into battle Cid: The Cid with his defeated enemy the count Cid: The Cid with the lion and his cowardly sons-in-law Cid: The Cid’s wife prays—an epic creed Conquest: William and Orable in the dungeon Conquest: William enters the Saracen city of Orange Culhwch and Olwen Disciplina: Little bird Edige: Scene from Turkic epic Equitan Erec: Couple’s welcome at Carnant Erec: Enide and the Evil Count Erec: Enide distraught Erec: Erec and Enide escape together Erec: Erec beats Kay Erec: Erec defeats three robbers Erec: Erec kills two evil giants Erec: Erec trounces Yder Erec: Wedding gifts to the church Eustace: Disguises Fables: Monkey King Fables: Mouse and Frog Gawain: Bertilak’s wife gets Gawain to accept green girdle Gawain: Bertilak’s wife tries to seduce Gawain Gawain: Bertilak’s wife tries yet again to seduce Gawain Gawain: Gawain arrives at the Green Chapel—the Green Knight is sharpening his axe! Gawain: Gawain gets ready for the Green Knight’s blow Gawain: Gawain leaves in search of Green Knight Gawain: Gawain, in his beautiful armor, prepares to leave Arthur’s court Gawain: Gawain’s guide discourages him from seeking the Green Knight Gawain: Green Knight leaves and King Arthur reacts Gawain: Green Knight’s challenge Gawain: Hunting and wooing scenes Gawain: Lady attempts to seduce Gawain Gawain: Lady’s second seduction attempt fails Gawain: Second seduction attempt Gawain: The alarming Green Knight Gawain: The Green Knight—All green! Gawain: The two ladies of Bertilak’s court Gesta: Devil Gesta: Magician Gesta: Of fidelity, or young prince rescued from pirates Goatleaf: Romanesque harp accompaniment Golden Legend: Martyrdom of St. Felicitas and Her Seven Sons Golden Legend: St. Nicholas Golden Legend: Virgin Mary rescues widow’s son from captivity Golden Legend: Virgin Mary saves thief from hanging Greed and Envy: The ending Hebrew Arthur: Author speaks; Merlin’s trick Helen Queen of Sparta: Scenes Hilali epic: Awadallah sings of Abu Zayd Hunchbacks: Entire fabliau Hunchbacks: In the news! Hunchbacks: Inebriated minstrel starts telling the fabliau Hunchbacks: Servant tries to dispose of bodies Hunchbacks: Wife hires man to dispose of dead bodies Igor: Tragic campaign begins Inferno, canto VIII: Dante meets Francesca Jataka: Three tales Jataka: Two tales Judith: Judith prepares to kill Holophernes Karagöz: Karagöz as boatman King Orfeo: Sung Knights, Clerks and Churls Lancelot cuts off Proud Knight’s head at maiden’s request Lancelot: Dwarf deceives Lancelot Lancelot: Father vs. Son Lancelot: Queen Guinevere is delighted with Lancelot Lancelot: Queen Guinevere repents of her cruelty; Lancelot attempts suicide Metamorphoses: Narcissus Miracle of Theophilus Moor of Venice: Shakespeare’s source for Othello Nibelungenlied: Beautiful Brunhild Nibelungenlied: Comic, abridged, group Nibelungenlied: Gunter sees Brunhild Nibelungenlied: Gunter wants to win Brunhild Nibelungenlied: Hagen and water sprites Nibelungenlied: Krimhild and Brunhild puppets Nibelungenlied: Krimhild burns the men alive Nibelungenlied: Krimhild mourns over Sifried’s body Nibelungenlied: Krimhild’s dream Nibelungenlied: Opening lines; group dance Nibelungenlied: Sifried and dwarf Albericht Nibelungenlied: Sifried’s body is taken to the church Nightingale Nightingale: Romanesque harp accompaniment Orfeo: Opening scenes Orlando: Opening canto Our Lady’s Tumbler Partridges with four performers Partridges: Wife devours birds Parzival: Wolfram speaks about himself and women Perceval: Gawain and Evil Maiden Perceval: Gawain knocks rude squire off his nag Perceval: Getting the Red Knight’s armor Perceval: Grail appears, Perceval silent Perceval: Knight insults maiden and Gawain Perceval: Ladies mock Gawain Perceval: Maiden with Little Sleeves taunts her sister Perceval: Perceval and Proud Knight Perceval: Perceval and the knights: devils or angels? Perceval: Perceval at hermitage Perceval: Perceval meets charcoal burner Perceval: Perceval takes knights for devils, then angels Perceval: Two sisters, a slap Renard: Camel, papal legate, speaks in court before Lion the King Renard: Chanteclere the Cock and his wife, Pinte the Hen Renard: Fox and Chanteclere the Cock Renard: Fox and Tibert the Cat Renard: Fox tricks Tibert the Cat Renard: Wolf returns home to his den Rhymed Roland: Aude and Charlemagne mourn together (in Old French) Rhymed Roland: Aude prays, then dies in Charlemagne’s arms Rhymed Roland: Aude’s prayer over Oliver’s body Robin Hood and the bold peddler, guitar accompaniment Robin Hood and the golden arrow, guitar accompaniment Roland: Ballad of Roland and Oliver Roland: Charlemagne hears horn, Ganelon rebukes him Roland: Duke Samson is killed Roland: Roland blows his saxophone Roland: Roland grieves over Oliver Roland: Roland is fierce Roland: Roland’s death, guitar accompaniment Roncisvalle: Maggio performance Rose or Dole: Scenes Rose: Covetousness, Envy, Sorrow, Poverty Rose: Dance in Garden; God of Love wounds young man Rose: God of Love with Wealth and Beauty Rose: Images on wall; Lover enters Garden of Mirth Rose: Lover enters Garden of Mirth Rose: Lover’s sufferings described Rose: Mimed images on garden wall Rose: Narcissus and Echo Rose: Narcissus and Echo-comic handling Rose: Narcissus and Echo-puppets Rose: Story until Lover receives kiss, 1 Rose: Story until Lover receives kiss, 2 Rose: Venus persuades Fair Welcome to kiss Lover Rose: Wealth Samson and Delilah Séquence de Sainte Eulalie (Sequence, or Song, of St. Eulalia) Silence: Eufemie reveals love for Cador Silence: Friendship and honor Silence: Merlin’s laughter Silence: Merlin, Nature and Nurture Silence: Minstrels Silence: Minstrels arrive Silence: Nature creates Silence Silence: Queen accuses Silence of rape Silence: Queen tries to seduce Silence Silence: Silence leads knights in battle Silence: Silence’s female identity revealed St. Brendan: Adventures St. John: Sins and miraculous forgiveness St. Peter and Jongleur: Puppets, 1 St. Peter and Jongleur: Puppets, 2 St. Peter and Jongleur: Satan finds all his souls gone Tahkemoni: Of seven maidens and their mendacity, 1 Tahkemoni: Of seven maidens and their mendacity, 2 Tain: Opening Tales Tam Lin: Sung Tam Lin: Unaccompanied song There Was a City: A crazy world, a sane man Three Women: Drinking in tavern Three Women: The Musical Titurel: Hurdy-gurdy; an episode Tristan by Béroul: Iseut arrives at the swamp; villains fall in the mud Tristan by Béroul: Iseut as melodrama Tristan by Béroul: Iseut’s Oath, 1 Tristan by Béroul: Iseut’s Oath, 2 Tristan by Béroul: Lovers take revenge Tristan by Béroul: Potion wears off; Tristan repents Tristan by Béroul: Tristan rescues Iseut from lepers Tristan by Béroul: Tristan teaches dog to hunt without barking Tristan by Béroul: Tristan’s leap Tristan by Béroul: Villains plot Tristano: Maggio performance Troilus: Reading in a paved parlor Wedding of Gawain: What do women want? Wife of Bath: Crone turns into beautiful woman Wife of Bath: Fairies are gone Wife of Bath: Her misogynistic husband Wife of Bath: How she managed husbands Wife of Bath: Wife fights with husband Wife of Bath: Wife speaks about marriage Wife of Bath: Women are children of Venus Wife’s Lament: She tells of her sorrow William in Monastery: William forces his way into monastery and beats up monks Yvain: Calogrenant meets giant bull-herder Yvain: Calogrenant tells his mortifying story Yvain: Fight with demons, 1 Yvain: Fight with demons, 2 Yvain: Laudine and Lunete Yvain: Lion attempts suicide Yvain: Lion thinks Yvain is dead! 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