Season Two: Arthur Through the Ages

Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama

1500-1700

• S2 E1: The Earliest King Arthur: Thomas Hughes' The Misfortunes of Arthur (1587)
• S2 E2: Verse Drama Meets Opera: John Dryden's The British Worthy (1691)
• S2 E3: Burlesque and Verse Drama: Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb the Great (1730)
  

1800-1900

• S2 E4: Defenestrating Lancelot!  (1843-1868)
• S2 E5: Empowering Guinevere (1885-1891)
• S2 E6: More Hovey, More Honey (1898)
• S2 E7: Melodrama! (1895)
• S2 E8: Gilbert and Sullivan Do King Arthur...Kinda (1895)
• S2 E9: King Arthur and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Play (1906)
  

2000-Present

• S2 E10: New Arthur, New Millennia: The Death of King Arthur by Matthew Freeman (2001)
• S2 E11: A Philosophical King Arthur by Lucy Nordberg (2009)
• S2 E12: The First Folio in the 21st Century: Daniel James Roth's The Tragedy of King Arthur (2019)
• S2 E13: Stage Violence and Verse: The Table Round and The Siege Perilous by Emily C. A. Snyder (2019)
  

Round Tables

• ROUND TABLE of the Round Table: Lucy Nordberg, Daniel James Roth and Emily C. A. Snyder
• ROUND TABLE: Daniel James Roth, Grace Bardsley and Benedetto Robinson

Timeline of Arthurian Verse Drama

Season Special Guest:
Nick Ritacco
as Lancelot

Nick Ritacco Official Site

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