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Mark sent Tristan as his proxy to fetch his young bride, the Princess Iseult from Ireland . Tristan and Iseult fall in love, and, with the help of a magic potion, proceed to have one of the stormiest love affairs in medieval literature. Mark suspects of the affair and eventually, his suspicions are confirmed. In some versions, he sends for Tristan to be hanged, and Iseult to a Leper Colony . Tristan escapes the hanging and rescues Mark's bride from her confinement, later to be discovered by Mark. Mark eventually forgives them, with Isolde returning to Mark and Tristan leaving the country. In the '' Prose Tristan '', Mark's character deteriorates from a sympathetic cuckold to a downright villain. He rapes his neice and then murders her when she produces his son, Meraugis, and he murders his brother Baldwin as well. In earlier versions of the story Tristan dies in Brittany , far away from Mark, but in the ''Prose Tristan'' Mark stabs Tristan while he plays the harp under a tree for Iseult. Though this version of Mark's character was popular in other medieval works, including the '' Romance Of Palamedes '' and Sir Thomas Malory 's '' Le Morte D'Arthur '', modern versions of the Tristan and Iseult legend tend to take their inspiration from the older poetic material, and Mark becomes a sympathetic character once again. IN VARIOUS MEDIA In the 1970s TV show '' Arthur Of The Britons '', Mark was played by Brian Blessed , and in the 2006 film '' Tristan & Isolde '', he was played by Rufus Sewell . |
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