2. Arthur’s Popularity Growing popularity –Since Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (1135) –Popularity has grown –Literature in English French German Italian Yiddish

3. Arthur’s Popularity Major early English works: –Geoffrey of Monmouth Historia Regum Britanniae (1136) –Unknown Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1300s) –Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale (1300s) –Malory Le Morte d'Arthur (1485) –Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1598) –Richard Johnson The History of Tom Thumbe, the Little, for his small stature surnamed, King Arthur's Dwarfe (1621)

4. Arthur’s Popularity Major early continental works: –Lancelot du Lak (French) –Grail cycle (French) –Arthurian Romances, Chrieten de Troyes (French) –Prose Vulgate cycle (French) –Parzival (German, Wolfram von Eschenbach)

5. Arthur’s Popularity 19 th Century works –Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King –Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

6. Arthur’s Popularity 20th-Century Works –E. B. White’s Once and Future King (1958) compilation of stories written beginning in 1938 –E. B. White’s Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King (1977) –Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon –Stephen R. Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle Taliesin Merlin Arthur

7. Arthur’s Popularity Popular Culture –Comic Books –TV –Film –Animated features –Video games

8. Comics

9. Classic Comics Prince Valiant –Debut in Feb. 13, 1937 –Still runs –Hal Forster created it Also did illustrations for Tarzan

10. Modern Comics

11. Arthur-Specific Comics Arthur: King of Britain Black Knight Camelot 3000 Knights of the Round Table Legends of Camelot Merlin

12. Film The Sword in the Stone (Disney, 1966) –Based on E. B. White’s story The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1951). Television series. Arthur the King (1986). Released on video as Merlin and the Sword. Arthur's Quest (2000). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989).

13. Film The Excalibur Kid (1998). Dragonheart (1996). Knights of the Round Table (1953). Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Merlin (1998). Merlin: The Return (2000). "Once Upon a Future King," Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1999). The Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979). Also known as A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court. (Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee.)

14. Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Camelot (1967) Sword of the Valiant (1982)--SGGK Excalibur (1981) First Knight (1995) The Fisher King (1991)