The title of the show refers to King Arthur's nephew Gawain.
The books at the start of the series focus somewhat on Sir Gawain, but primarily on Terence, an original character and Gawain's squire .
It follows the lives of Queen Guinevere, or Guenevere, and her strife with Agravain and Gawain, as well as that of her lover's, Lancelot, as they both enter different paths in their lives, away from each other.
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Feeling depressed about the disastrous results of his affair with Orlene, Norton is approached by Gawain again, who offers Norton the position of Time (Chronos), where he must rule over all Earthly aspects of time.
His work in music theatre has involved collaborations with a number of composers (but most often with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, the opera Gawain being their most notable collaboration) and has been performed at the Royal Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the Southbank Centre, The Proms, the Wiener Kammeroper, and broadcast on BBC Two, Channel 4 and Trio (USA).
In 1956 Ormerod Greenwood, working on a translation of Gawain, made the suggestion that the author of Pearl and Gawain was one of the Masseys of Sale.
Within Greg Weisman's Gargoyles animated series continuation as the Gargoyles comic series Peredur fab Ragnal is the son of Gawain, and leader of that fictional world's form of the Illuminati, living at Castle Carbonek in the storyline.
These four children (Gawain, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth) become major characters for the rest of White's work.
William Dunbar's poem the Lament for the Makaris includes the name Clerk of Tranent as a poet probably of the fifteenth century, citing him as author of the Anteris of Gawain.
His importance is indicated by his close friendship with Gawain and the passage in the Mort Artu section of the Lancelot-Grail cycle where he is one of the last knights to die before Arthur.