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Gawain

In Arthurian legend, one of the knights of the Round Table who participated in the quest for the Holy Grail. He is the hero of the 14th-century epic poem Sir Gawayne and the Greene Knight.

Gawain was the son of King Lot of Orkney and Morgause.

Gawain

Opera in two acts by Harrison Birtwistle (libretto by D Harsent after the anonymous medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), first produced at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on 30 May 1991.
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An earlier study by Gauvain and Rogoff, 1989, had shown the power of what they called "shared task responsibility, sharing decision-making, examining possibilities and explaining thinking".
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