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The Arthurian Tradition

The Arthurian Tradition. An Introduction. 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

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The Arthurian Tradition

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  1. The Arthurian Tradition An Introduction

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

  3. 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

  4. 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)

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

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Once and Future King (1958) • compilation of stories written beginning in 1938 • E. B. White’s Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King (1977) • Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon • Stephen R. Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle • Taliesin • Merlin • Arthur

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

  8. Comics

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

  10. Modern Comics

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

  12. 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).

  13. 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.)

  14. 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)

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