| Cardinal Hawkwood | 21 Sep 2015 3:24 p.m. PST |
I don't know if this has been done.I apologise for the silghly clumsy title but I want to cover all Arthurian media.So think books , movies ,comic strips whatever. And I imagine this will get a good response. I start wit Malory's Works edited by Eugene Vinaver
Mary Stewart's trilogy
T.H White The once and Future King
All of Aubrey Beardsley's Athurian series of drawings and John Boormans film, Excalibur.
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| Cardinal Hawkwood | 21 Sep 2015 3:25 p.m. PST |
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| Shedman | 21 Sep 2015 3:49 p.m. PST |
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| Cardinal Hawkwood | 21 Sep 2015 3:57 p.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 21 Sep 2015 5:00 p.m. PST |
The Once and Future King
From which we got Disney's great The Sword in the Stone, and the play Camelot. The book is witty and tragic.
The cartoon is funny and serious.
And the play is magnificent. I prefer the Burton Goulet Andrews Broadway cast recording. |
| Wackmole9 | 21 Sep 2015 5:20 p.m. PST |
Prince Valiant from the master of Comic strip art Hal Foster. |
| tberry7403 | 21 Sep 2015 5:26 p.m. PST |
I wonder what the King is doing tonight? |
| Bellbottom | 21 Sep 2015 5:47 p.m. PST |
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| Pictors Studio | 21 Sep 2015 8:24 p.m. PST |
I've read a lot of Arthur stuff over the years and still haven't found one better than The Once and Future King. |
| Grelber | 21 Sep 2015 8:36 p.m. PST |
Another vote for Once and Future King.
Rosemary Sutcliff and Mary Stewart also tell good stories, and present a more "historical" Arthur. Grelber |
| MajorB | 22 Sep 2015 1:39 a.m. PST |
Yes, "The Sword at Sunset" |
korsun0  | 22 Sep 2015 2:52 a.m. PST |
Cornwell's Warlord trilogy…… |
| sillypoint | 22 Sep 2015 3:24 a.m. PST |
Monty Python's Holy Grail 😜 of course! |
| Richard Humm | 22 Sep 2015 4:03 a.m. PST |
A few other possiblities:
Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock (for the historical backgrpund)
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
Pendragon roleplaying game
Dux Britanniarum by Too Fat Lardies
Dux Bellorum by Dan Mersey
Warhammer Ancient Battles Age of Arthur by Steve Jones and James Morris |
 Doms Decals  | 22 Sep 2015 4:33 a.m. PST |
Another vote for Cornwell – it got me enthused about the period in a way that rarely happens. Rules-wise, Dux Britanniarum, but for reading matter, Cornwell hit the spot…. |
| Ney Ney | 22 Sep 2015 8:27 a.m. PST |
Glutter of Ravens is the dogs b's! |
| Ney Ney | 22 Sep 2015 8:28 a.m. PST |
Closely followed by the WAB book mentioned earlier. |
| goragrad | 22 Sep 2015 10:06 a.m. PST |
Have to say that I was tickled to see the endorsement of 'Sword at Sunset' in the DBA 3.0 notes on the Romano-British army lists. Read it in high school. Still my favorite. There was also a juvenile version of Mallory in the junior high library that I enjoyed. Haven't run across it yet, would be interesting to give a copy to the nieces and nephew. In that vein I also like Zelazny's 'Last Defender of Camelot.' I thought it caught the tone of Mallory perfectly. |
| Ney Ney | 22 Sep 2015 10:54 p.m. PST |
If we are talking fiction, I like the antiquity of Howard Pyle's stories |
| Wulfgar | 26 Sep 2015 5:38 p.m. PST |
Rosemary Sutcliff's "Sword at Sunset" will always be my favorite. For those who may not have had the opportunity, Anne McCaffrey's "Black Horses for the King," is a young person's novel inspired by Sutcliff's book. Daniel Mersey's "Dux Bellorum" is my favorite rule set for the era. Sadly, it seems that most filmed accounts of Arthur are seriously flawed. Maybe someday. |
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