In 1451, the Warwickshire knight Sir Thomas Malory began serving a long prison sentence for poaching, assault, attempted murder, robbery, and rape (One historian points out, evidently in Malory's "defense," that at the time the offense of rape included consensual sex with a married woman.) While incarcerated in London's Newgate prison, Malory spent the next 20 years writing Le Morte D'Arthur, the first English prose account of the classic legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable.
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