From Camelot to Spamalot: Musical Retellings of Arthurian Legend on Stage and Screen
- Author: Woller, Megan
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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: Naivete 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