... a possible resolution to those tensions--not because of anything Ivanhoe does, for he is weirdly inactive for an action hero (he spends more than half the novel on the sidelines with an injury), but for what he is, a Saxon knight who is passionately loyal to King Richard, a Norman king. Structurally, Ivanhoe is divided into three parts, each of them centering around a particular adventure or quest ... De Bracy's affections, but she ably wards him off. She is rewarded with Ivanhoe, who becomes her husband. The hermit, also Clerk of Copmanhurst, also Friar Tuck: The fat, jolly, lawbreakin...

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