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From Camelot to Spamalot: Musical Retellings of Arthurian Legend on Stage and Screen

From Camelot to Spamalot: Musical Retellings of Arthurian Legend on Stage and Screen


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For centuries, Arthurian legend has captured imaginations throughout Europe and the Americas with its tales of Camelot, romance, and chivalry. The ever-shifting, age-old tale of King Arthur and his world is one which depends on retellings for its endurance in the cultural imagination. Using adaptation theory as a framework, From Camelot to Spamalot foregrounds the role of music in selected Arthurian adaptations, examining six stage and film musicals. The book considers how musical versions in twentieth and twenty-first century popular culture interpret the legend of King Arthur, contending that music guides the audience to understand this well-known tale and its characters in new and unexpected ways. All of the productions considered include an overtly modern perspective on the legend, intruding and even commenting on the tale of King Arthur. Shifting from an idealistic utopia to a silly place, the myriad notions of Camelot offer a look at the importance of myth in American popular culture. Author Megan Woller's approach, rooted in the literary theory of scholars like Linda Hutcheon, highlights the intertextual connections between chosen works and Arthurian legend. In so doing, From Camelot to Spamalot intersects with and provides a timely contribution to several different fields of study, from adaptation studies and musical theater studies to film studies and Arthurian studies.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Adapting Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Prelude: Twain as Adapter Chapter 1: Musical Storytelling and Revision in Rodgers and Hart's A Connecticut Yankee Chapter 2: Bing Crosby's Stardom and Legend in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Part 2: Adapting T.H. White's The Once and Future King Chapter 3: Interpretation and Characterization in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot Chapter 4: Naiveté and the Depiction of Arthur's Childhood in Disney's The Sword in the Stone Part 3: Monty Python as Adapters Chapter 5: Parody and the Role of Song in Monty Python and the Holy Grail Chapter 6: Notions of Place, Legend, and Broadway in Monty Python's Spamalot Conclusion Archival Collections Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Megan Woller is Director of Liberal Studies and Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Gannon University. Her research interests include film music, musical theater, popular music, and music and gender. She is the author of articles on film musical adaptations in The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Adaptations, Music and the Moving Image, and Studies in Musical Theatre.

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"...Camelot to Spamalot sheds a fascinating light on the many ways in which a century of popular culture has responded to one of the most enduring of all stories." -- Vaughan Edwards, Stage and Cinema "In a narrative as compelling as the myth itself, Woller's important study reveals how song and dance have been used to adapt and readapt the story of King Arthur into some of the most important and beloved musicals in Broadway and Hollywood history." -- Dominic McHugh, Professor in Musicology at the University of Sheffield and author of Loverly: The Life and Times of 'My Fair Lady'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780197511039
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 155 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 412 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0197511031
  • Publisher Date: 26 Aug 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Musical Retellings of Arthurian Legend on Stage and Screen
  • Width: 234 mm


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