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Jun 9, 2011 · A new television series is the latest dramatisation of the Camelot myth. But why is the legend of King Arthur such a compelling one in culture?
Apr 13, 2023 · But “Camelot,” the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical based on T.H. White’s Arthurian tales, has what you might call a post-operetta problem.
Camelot is a musical with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and a book by Alan Jay Lerner. It is based on the legend of King Arthur as adapted from the 1958 novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White.
Dec 20, 2016 · Arthur married Queen Guinevere but she betrayed him by falling for one of his knights, Sir Lancelot, and their affair was said to have triggered the downfall of the kingdom.
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Both Geoffrey of Monmouth and Chrétien de Troyes place Camelot, Arthur’s chief court and fortress, in Caerleon, South Wales, one of three Roman legionary forts in Britain. Although the name ‘Caerleon’ sounds typically Celtic, it is actually a corruption of the Latin words castrum (fortress) and legio (legion).
Oct 19, 2024 · Camelot, in Arthurian legend, the seat of King Arthur’s court. It is variously identified with Caerleon, Monmouthshire, in Wales, and, in England, with the following: Queen Camel, Somerset; the little town of Camelford, Cornwall; Winchester, Hampshire; and Cadbury Castle, South Cadbury, Somerset.
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May 11, 2020 · Camelot is real in the hearts of children everywhere, certainly. In a literal sense, not at all, no. Probably. That's part of how it got so famous.
