The Arthurian Tradition An Introduction Arthurs Popularity Growing

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The Arthurian Tradition An Introduction

The Arthurian Tradition An Introduction

Arthur’s Popularity • Growing popularity – Since Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (1135)

Arthur’s Popularity • Growing popularity – Since Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (1135) – Popularity has grown – Literature in • • • English French German Italian Yiddish

Arthur’s Popularity • Major early English works: – Geoffrey – Sir Gawain and the

Arthur’s Popularity • Major early English works: – Geoffrey – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale – Malory – Spenser’s Faerie Queene

Arthur’s Popularity • Major early continental works: – Lancelot du Lak (French) – Grail

Arthur’s Popularity • Major early continental works: – Lancelot du Lak (French) – Grail cycle (French) – Arthurian Romances, Chrieten de Troyes (French) – Prose Vulgate cycle (French) – Parzival (German, Wolfram von Eschenbach)

Arthur’s Popularity • Modern works – Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King –

Arthur’s Popularity • Modern works – Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King – Tom Thumb – Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Arthur’s Popularity • 20 th-Century Works – E. B. White’s Once and Future King

Arthur’s Popularity • 20 th-Century Works – E. B. White’s Once and Future King (1958) • compilation of stories written beginning in 1938 – E. B. White’s Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King (1977) – Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon – Stephen R. Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle • Taliesin • Merlin • Arthur

Arthur’s Popularity • Popular Culture – Comic Books – TV – Film – Animated

Arthur’s Popularity • Popular Culture – Comic Books – TV – Film – Animated features – Video games

Comics

Comics

Classic Comics • Prince Valiant – Debut in Feb. 13, 1937 – Still runs

Classic Comics • Prince Valiant – Debut in Feb. 13, 1937 – Still runs – Hal Forster created it • Also did illustrations for Tarzan

Modern Comics

Modern Comics

Arthur-Specific Comics • • Arthur: King of Britain Black Knight Camelot 3000 Knights of

Arthur-Specific Comics • • Arthur: King of Britain Black Knight Camelot 3000 Knights of the Round Table • Legends of Camelot • Merlin

Film • The Sword in the Stone (Disney, 1966) – Based on E. B.

Film • The Sword in the Stone (Disney, 1966) – Based on E. B. White’s story • The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1951). Television series. • Arthur the King (1986). Released on video as Merlin and the Sword. • Arthur's Quest (2000). • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989).

Film • • The Excalibur Kid (1998). Dragonheart (1996). Knights of the Round Table

Film • • The Excalibur Kid (1998). Dragonheart (1996). Knights of the Round Table (1953). Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Merlin (1998). Merlin: The Return (2000). "Once Upon a Future King, " Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1999). • The Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979). Also known as A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court. (Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee. )

Film • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) • Camelot (1967) • Sword

Film • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) • Camelot (1967) • Sword of the Valiant (1982)--SGGK • Excalibur (1981) • First Knight (1995) • The Fisher King (1991)