Before Arthur commanded a round table of legendary knights in Camelot, he was simply a young squire with dreams of becoming a great knight himself. Arthur lived during a time when Britain was without a ruler, but fate would quickly draw him into the middle of a grand search for the next king-a search that involved a sword famously set in stone.
Philip Edwards is a former King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University. He is the editor of the New Cambridge edition of 'Hamlet' (1985). His many publications include 'Shakespeare and the Confines of Art' (Methuen, 1968) and 'Threshold of a Nation: A Study in English and Irish Drama' (Cambridge, 1979).