Sir Thomas Mallory's amazing work... Morte D'Arthur..
written in prison which put's him on a par with
John Bunyon and the Marquis de Sade who also
did most of their writing in prison.
Prison has a way of concentrating the mind and writing is one occupation that is always open to the lonely prisoner.
But how did he manage to get all the source documents
and research while stuck in a prison ?
And how much of the writing is his own ?
He was born around 1405 and died 1471 so he lived way before Shakespeare.
He was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire.
He died in March of 1471, less than two years after completing his lengthy book.
Twice elected to a seat in Parliament, he also accrued a long list of criminal charges during the 1450s, including burglary, rape, sheep stealing, and attempting to ambush the Duke of Buckingham.
He escaped from jail on two occasions, once by fighting his way out and once by swimming a moat.
Malory was imprisoned at several locations in London, but he was occasionally out on bail. He was never brought to trial for the charges that had been levelled against him.
Whatever the case he has produced a wonderful panorama of Arthurian legend, perhaps the best of all
and maybe he needs to be up there with William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens as one of the all time greats .
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