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...that includes Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace. Layamon, Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and now Alan Jay Lerner. In Camelot, he necessarily left out some of the legend's great characters: Sir Kay the Seneschal, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine the lily-maid of Astolat, even Sir Galahad, the squarest knight at the Round Table...
...Bells tolled faintly in the distance, harbingers of Woe. The scene changed abruptly. Seething with passion the Knight of the Lake invaded the bed of Queen Guinevere. Followed a pallid flashback to Elaine floating on her barge, dead for love. The mood became reminiscent: the love-blighted lily of Astolat guarding the wayward knight's shield in a tower, pining away. The barge motif was again heard. Betrayed, undone, Queen & lover fled Camelot, Guinevere to Amesbury nunnery and the veil, Launcelot to his castle. Final chapter of the symphony was Launcelot, ruled by grief and pain, moving gloomily among...
Launcelot and Elaine. In 1921 the noble, moody and self-incriminating Launcelot walked on a Greenwich Village stage with the lily maid of Astolat in a dramatic version of Tennyson's poetry by Playwright Edwin Milton Royle. It was a play to which school teachers were recommended to send their charges. It remains so; is enunciated, in the present revival, with true stock-company grandiloquence...
...fought and loved nobly but then fell; Galahad who rode away in righteousness-the last was her masterpiece. Lancelot finished his days in a monastery, more bluntly honest than ever and utterly perplexed by the last tra-edy his honesty precipitated, the suicide of the "lily maid" of Astolat, the second Elaine, whose proposal, made in tenderest neurotic innocence, so astonishingly echoed her unhappy namesake...
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