1. This is the view of R. M. Lumiansky, ‘Prelude to Adultery’, in Malory’s Originality, ed. Lumiansky, Baltimore, 1964, pp. 91–8. For Vinaver’s rejection of this (in particular, the theory of a ‘progressive development of the Lancelot-Guinevere relationship which runs through Le Morte Darthur’), see Works, 2nd edn., 1967, pp. 1413–14.