8/12/2023 0 Comments Reynard fox music![]() ![]() I want everyone to read Avery's retelling, largely based on Caxton's English translation from the Old Dutch in 1481. And it was the truth of how power corrupts that prompted Goethe in 1792 to draft a retelling. I thought it might be a bit twee, which is OK with me, but underneath the thousand year old story with all the cute and comic animal stuff, the bouncy sentences, there is a lot of hard-earned, tough-learned truth about human weakness. "Reynard the Fox" is by far my favorite book of 2020. With its themes of protest, resistance and duplicity fronted by a personable, anti-heroic Fox making his way in a dangerous and cruel world, this gripping tale is as relevant and controversial today as it was in the fifteenth century. His character spoke eloquently for the unvoiced and disenfranchised, but also amused and delighted the elite, capturing hearts and minds across borders and societal classes for centuries.īased on William Caxton's bestselling 1481 English translation of the Middle Dutch, but expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative retelling of the Reynard story. Reynard was once the most popular and beloved character in European folklore, as familiar as Robin Hood, King Arthur or Cinderella. How will he pit his wits against his accusers - greedy Bruin the Bear, pretentious Courtoys the Hound or dark and dangerous Isengrim the Wolf - to escape the gallows? He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders - is in trouble. ![]()
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