| re: Guinevere - Likable |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 07:43 pm EDT 08/06/20 |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 07:28 pm EDT 08/06/20 |
| In reply to: re: Guinevere - Likable - Michael_Portantiere 01:53 pm EDT 08/06/20 |
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Yes. Yes.
I could (and have) gone on and on about what Julie Andrews’ first autobiography says about the creators’ decision to keep the Lancelot-Guenevere relationship chaste. I even said so somewhere below. I think she and they are correct.
I think it weakens the storyline and the character if she lacks a moral integrity to match Arthur’s (as in the film and the Two-Rivers revisal). TH White was determined to de-mythologize all of them, but particularly Guenevere. He created her with black hair and a very passionate, selfish temperament. And in The Mists of Avalon, Guenevere is very complexly ignoble.
But, in this show, she’s better than that. And the show becomes about the vision of the Round Table, which she too embraces. It’s for all three of them. And look at what is said in I LOVED YOU ONCE IN SILENCE so late in the play. |
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