Idylls of the King & Camelot

by Allan Knee

"The world of Idylls of The King is essentially tragic, lightened by a few brief moments of pleasure. Camelot is a happy woeld, filled with eccentrics, that becomesaddened through lightheadedness and pranksterish tricks...

Genres: Poetry, Plays, Arthurian

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 15, 1967

About the author

Allan Knee is a film and television writer and playwright who authored the following:


Stage

Little Women (Broadway musical) (2005)
The Man Who was Peter Pan (42nd Street Workshop 'Off-Broadway. (March 1998)[1][2]
Late Nite Comic (Broadway) (1987)[3]


Film/TV

Esther's Diary (2010), a Holocaust film directed by Mariusz Kotowski
Finding Neverland (2004) (screenplay by David Magee was based on Knee's play, The Man Who Was Peter Pan)
The Scarlet Letter (1979) (mini-series)

Reviews

[Marta E C R · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars rounded down. I’d bought this little paperback in 1972, when I was quite enamored with the movie Camelot. I’m not sure I read it then, though. I recently found it on my shelves and felt ready to give it away, so my husband and I did it as a readaloud, starting during a camping trip to NM. He liked Idylls of the King best (even though much was hard to understand for us both), and I liked the Camelot part best. I distinctly remember reading some of the Idylls while driving toward Los Ojos, NM. It was fun for me to revisit Camelot and hear the songs which I’d loved so much, and he tolerated it.

[JoEllen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just read the Tennyson. I am now innoculated against ennui.