I’ve put together this list of some recent articles, essays etc on Arthurian legends on television – so essays critiquing shows like BBC Merlin, Camelot, Kaamelot and Mists of Avalon. Because its such a recent subject area, I thought I’d put them together for easy reference
I’m still dithering whether to include some blog posts, as some of them are excellent, but Tumblr/LJ posts can be deleted, or whathaveyou, so, if you’ve got any suggestions, let me know
ENJOY!!!!
- Araeph. ‘The Triumph of Uther Pendragon: a Thesis’. [Essay] http://archiveofourown.org/works/1126297/chapters/2270852
- Brennan, Joseph “You could Shame the Great Arthur Himself”: A Queer Reading of Lancelot from BBC’s Merlin with Respect to the Character in Malory, White and Bradley’. Arthuriana. Vol 25 no. 2 July 2015, p 20
- Brennan, Joseph ‘“You gave me no choice”: A queer reading of Mordred’s journey to villainy and struggle for identity in BBC’s Merlin’. Refactory: a journal of entertainment and media . Oct 7, 2015
http://refractory.unimelb.edu.au/2015/10/07/brennan/- Briand, Cedric “Kaamelot’s Paradox: Lancelot between Subjugation and Individuation. Arthuriana. 25 (1) , 2015, p 22
- Chandler, Erin. ‘Pendragons at the Chopping Block: Elements of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the BBC’s Merlin’. Arthuriana 25(1) 2015 p101
- Edwards, Jennifer C. ‘Casting, Plotting and Enchanting: Arthurian Women in Starz’s Camelot and BBC’s Merlin’. Arthuriana. 25 (1) 2015 p 57
- Elliott, A. B. R.. (2011). ‘The Charm of the (Re)making: Problems of Arthurian Television Serialization. Arthuriana’, 21(4), 53–67. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/23238232
- Elmes, Melissa Ridly. ‘Episodic Arthur Merlin, Camelot and the Visual Modernization of the Medieval Literary Romance Tradition’ In ‘The Middle Ages on Television’. Ed by. Meriem Pages and Karolyn Kinane. McFarland & Co, Nth Carolina,USA, 2015
- Feinstein, Sandy. ‘Are you kidding? King Arthur and the Knights of Justice In ‘The Middle Ages on Television’. Ed by. Meriem Pages and Karolyn Kinane. McFarland & Co, Nth Carolina,USA, 2015
- Foster, Tara. ‘Arthur and Guenievre: The Royal Couple in Kamelott’ ‘The Middle Ages on Television’. Ed by. Meriem Pages and Karolyn Kinane. McFarland & Co, Nth Carolina,USA, 2015
- Foster, Tara & Sherman, John ‘King Arthur in the Twenty-First Century: Kaamelot, BBC’s Merlin and Starz’s Camelo’t. Arthuriana 25 ( 1) 2015 p 3
- Foster, Tara ‘Kaamelot’s Global Fifth Century’ Arthuriana 25 (1) 2015, p 5
- Foster, Tara ‘Ne cherchez pas la femme : The Women of Kaamelott. In ‘The Middle Ages on Television’. Ed by. Meriem Pages and Karolyn Kinane. McFarland & Co, Nth Carolina,USA, 2015
- George, Michal W. ‘Television’s Male Gaze: The Male Perspective in TNT’s Mists of Avalon’ In ‘The Middle Ages on Television’. Ed by. Meriem Pages and Karolyn Kinane. McFarland & Co, Nth Carolina,USA, 2015
- Gebhardt, Torben R. ‘Homosexuality in Television Medievalism’ In ‘The Middle Ages on Television’. Ed by. Meriem Pages and Karolyn Kinane. McFarland & Co, Nth Carolina,USA, 2015
- ‘Kaamelott: A new French Arthurian Tradition” in Arthurian Literature XXXI ed by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson, Boydell & Brewer, UK, Nov 2014
Mediavilla, Cindy “From ‘Unthinking Stereotype’ to Fearless Antagonist: The Evolution of Morgan le Fay on Television’. Arthuriana 25 (1) 2015 p 44- Meredith, Elysse T. ‘Gendering Morals, Magic and Medievalism in the BBC’s Merlin’ In ‘The Middle Ages on Television’. Ed by. Meriem Pages and Karolyn Kinane. McFarland & Co, Nth Carolina,USA, 2015
- Nygard, Ingrid. ‘The Arthurian Legend on the Small Screen’ Starz Camelot and BBC’s Merlin.[Thesis] University of Oslo, November 2013
http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/01/arthurian-legend-small-screen-starz-camelot-bbcs-merlin/- Sherman, Jon. ‘Source, Authority, and Audience in the BBC’s Merlin. Arthuriana 25 (1) 2015, p 82
- Swank, Kris . ‘Black and Liminal in Camelot’. Pima Community College, 2012 https://www.academia.edu/2494445/_Black_in_Camelot_Race_and_Ethnicity_in_Arthurian_Legend
- Tollerton, David C. ‘Multiculturism, Diversity, and Religious Tolerance in Modern Britain and the BBC’s Merlin”. Arthuriana. 25 (1) p 113
My design “The Arthur Cat” is on Threadless!
https://www.threadless.com/designs/the-arthur-cat
Arthur-San, the heroic King of England and defender of the realm, has just recovered the mighty Excalibur from its resting pedestal of stone.
But his Knights are scattered, he must go about reforming his Knights 12 and prepare to face new dangers to the realm! Which Knight will be the first to join him….?!
Look forward to more in this series as new Knights return to Arthur-San’s side!
* Edit- updated with link…..(oops)
My hardcover of Le Morte d’Arthur arrived today – 3 days late, but it was all worth it. I audibly gasped when I opened the package, the front was just so beautiful I was already in love before I even looked at the rest of the book. It’s a gorgeous teal colour with beautiful golden designs & golden metalic page edges. The inside is just as beautiful as the outside, the illustrations are wonderful, as are the Book title pages. Also, it smells lovely! I am so, so in love with this book. I had the idea when I bought it that I’ll throw away my old Le Morte d’Arthur paperback with the ripped pages & writing (it’s a second hand book) & read/use this new one but it’s so beautiful I feel guilty just touching it. It’s so heavy too, I have to find it a pride of place on my book shelf but aah, how do I put it in a way that you can see the entire book, there’s not one thing I don’t love.
M: There’s a man I’m considering helping. He’s tired. He’s spent his life tending to others and now he just wants to marry the woman he loves and grow old by her side, but there’s an obstacle.
N: He sounds awful.
Promo shots of the Danish royal theatre’s production of “King Arthur”.
I need this.
ARTUS Excalibur | FreilichtSpiele Tecklenburg | 18.6 – 28.8.2016 (Tickets)
[insert sexual pun here]
Ellen Terry as Queen Guinevere in ‘King Arthur’, by Window & Grove
Platinum print, 1895, published in 1906
Costumes designed by Edward Burne-Jones
SO I AM SO EXCITED. So many arthurian things in these months and this period:
- Queens of Avalon has been EXCELLENT (amazing, I mean), so if you want to watch a musical about Guinevere and Morgana which will make you cry, this is it (songs are already on spotify)
- a new crime modern age tv shows has been announced! “Camelot” seems to be about Arthur returning and being helped by Lance and Gwen, who is a cop!
- And if I understood correctly… the Kaamelott movie (two movies?) is a sure thing!
- We still don’t know anything more about Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord Chronicles show, but there’s still hope.
- Guy Ritchie’s new (first of a series) arthurian movie has a trailer and looks amazing
- and the Sword in the Stone live action movie has its own imdb page
sexuality: authors who use medraut instead of mordred
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