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Selections from Idylls of the King / Camelot
Selections from Idylls of the King / Camelot Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson, Allan Knee (Editor), Alan Jay Lerner "The world of Idylls Of The King is essentially tragic, lightened by a few brief moments of pleasure. Camelot is a happy world, filled with eccentrics, that becomes saddened through lightheadedness and pranksterish tricks.... In both works -- Tennyson's moving allegory and Lerner and Loewe's lively musical play -- we see a great idea brought to ... more »ruin. In the end the frailties of human nature win out. It is not hard to understand why this cycle of stories has excited the imagination of writers for nearly a thousand years." --from the Introduction by Allan Knee« less