Author's Notes for Astolat.
First Main Action.—Re-establishment of relations
between Launcelot and Guenevere.
Second Main Action.—Life and death of Elaine. (Pathos.)
Underplot.—Tristram and Iseult.
Leading persons in second main action the moral
agents in resolving complication of first main action.
Personages of underplot the physical agents.
Tristram has brought his friend Launcelot to
Elaine's to be cured, and visits him there.
Central idea.—The necessity for experience in order
to come to one's self.
Insanity of Launcelot at beginning of play.
