Word: astolat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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