ABSTRACT
Early Middle English romance should not confused with pastoral idylls of later periods any more than with popular modern love stories. Like many early romances, Kyng Alisaunder adaptation of an Anglo-Norman original, Romance Alexander by Thomas Kent. It recounts the Greek hero's exploits and battles, but his love for Candace is no more important to the story than any other episode. Like the related romances, Arthour and Merlin and Richard Coer de Lion and Kyng Alisaunderseems to produced in the London area towards the end of the thirteenth century and, included in the famous Auchinleck MS, which compiled in London in the first third of the fourteenth century. However, only fragments of the Auchinleck version remain, and the poem is nearly complete in two other manuscripts, Lincoln's Inn MS 150 and Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc. 622. Latter, a manuscript produced in London in the third quarter of the fourteenth century.
