Megan Woller (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

From Camelot to Spamalot

Musical Retellings of Arthurian Legend on Stage and Screen

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Produktbeschreibung

For centuries, Arthurian legend with its tales of Camelot, romance, and chivalry has captured imaginations throughout Europe and the Americas. This book explores musical adaptations of Arthurian legend as filtered through specific versions of the tale as told by Mark Twain, T.H. White, and Monty Python.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 235mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780197511039
• ISBN-10: 0197511031
• Artikelnr.: 60418447

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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