Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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🗓️ 15 August 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Queer as Fiction is back, and greener than ever, as we discuss the 14th century poem, recently adapted into a film by David Lowery starring Dev Patel, commonly referred to as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Join us for a discussion of colour theory, kissing games, gendered napping and yet more colour theory. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Queer's Fiction, where we talk about queer historical media. I'm Jason.
0:04.6	I'm Alice, and I'm Eli. And today we're talking about the 14th century Middle English
0:08.7	chivalric romance of unknown authorship and unknown title, commonly referred to as Gawain and the
0:13.4	Green Knight.
0:25.8	Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the Wawandari,
0:30.8	Weirang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders past and present.
0:33.3	We recognize them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:37.8	We also have some content warnings for this episode, fictional non-permanent beheading and mild
0:42.2	sexual content. That's it, but if that does sound like something you don't want to listen to,
0:46.1	please feel free to check out one of our other episodes. So let's talk about Gawain and the
0:49.7	Green Knight, which I'm going to refer to as Gawain for the purposes of this episode because Seggeck or Sir Gawain and the Green Night, as it is referred to in academia, it is a little
0:58.6	bit too unwieldy for an entire podcast episode.
1:01.1	If I call it Seggik, is that allowed?
1:03.7	That is acceptable, yes.
1:05.4	They can't believe what we say.
1:08.7	Seggik.
1:09.5	Like, I genuinely don't know why they don't call it The Green Knight.
1:13.5	Like, Gawain is in other stories, but, like, as far as I can tell, the Green Knight isn't really.
1:17.5	So, like...
1:18.8	Yeah, okay.
1:19.7	It seems to me, like, there's an obvious title.
1:21.6	Yeah, that would specify this story and this story only, and it's easy to say. Yeah, and would abbreviate into TGK, which
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