The Arthurian Legend
The Arthurian Legend is perhaps the most popular
of all parts of English Literature.
Hollywood never tires of bringing back the
great tales every few years, of Arthur and the Round Table; of Lancelot,
Elaine, and Guinevere; of the Quest for the Holy Grail.
The scene above is from The
Knights of the Round Table, a 1954 MGM classic. While it's
not the most accurate film version of the story, it is a film which fits
in with my Philosphy
of Classroom Movies, so you will see a number of ideas illustrated
by scenes from that film.
Many of these slideshow images have links. Please
click on them.
Earliest versions of the Arthur Myth can be found
at The
Celtic Twilight.
Le
Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Mallory
Idylls
of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
At the turn of the century, Mark Twain wrote the
classic
parody of the Arthurian Age, A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
The
Once and Future King
Howard
Pyle Illustrations
Click on the above picture for more information about
the Holy Grail.
One of the better speeches in literature about the
quest, can be found in Dale Wasserman's Man
of La Mancha.
Other Grail
Myths
Please click the image for more details.
More
information about Arthur
The Lady
of the Lake lives in eternal peace in a magical kingdom that has been
hidden by a magic spell which makes all vistors believe she is in a lake.
She plays key roles in several stories.
Please click on the graphic for information on women
in Arthurian England.
Women
from Man of La Mancha
Chivalry,
from Camelot
More
on Chivalry
T.H.
White on Chivalry
The Code of Chivalry, as sworn in Dragonheart.
Click on Graphic for more information.
Song
of Nimue from Camelot.
Click on the image to hear Guenevere's song from
Camelot.
More material on Guenevere
Click on the image to hear the very revealing "C'est
Moi" from Camelot.
Click here for more on Lancelot.
Or here for even more: Lancelot
Lancelot was loved by The
Lady of Shalott. Here she is in a painting by John William Waterhouse
(Clicking on the image will take you to Tennyson's poems.)
And this is how she appears in The Knights of
the Round Table:
One chair at the Round Table is labeled "This
Seige Perilous" because if any knight other than the noblest knight
in the world sat in it, he would be struck dead. The seat is finally
taken by Galahad,
the offspring of Elaine's purity and the good she saw in Lancelot.
Here are some links to more information about Morgan
Le Fey and Mordred.
Please click on the image to hear "Avalon" from Dragonheart.
Click here to hear Arthur's
last words from Camelot.
For More information . . .
There are a number of pages devoted
to King Arthur and his Knights on the web, but one of the best is The
Quest! by University of Idaho's Arthurian Legend Club, Caliburn,
advised by Dr. Rick Fehrenbacher, and maintained by Caliburn's chair, Erin
M. Ogden. Many of my links are to this wonderful site.
Another great site is The
Camelot Project at the University of Rochester, designed by Alan Lupack,
Curator of the Robbins Library, and Barbara Tepa Lupack.
A Great source for on-line texts
is The Celtic Twilight
Another good source is Arthuriana
A-Z
And a really great text to answer
just about any question: Bulfinch's Age
of Chivalry
Go
to the Multimedia Classroom
A chivalry page by one of my students, Andrew Saxon
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