| re: Guinevere - Likable | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 12:53 am EDT 08/08/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Guinevere - Likable - Chromolume 02:48 pm EDT 08/07/20 | |
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| ***I think that with "Take Me To The Fair," Guenevere isn't really thinking about the consequences of her thoughts. It's still fantasy, and I think the idea of Lancelot actually getting killed in a joust is not real/final to her.*** "You will bash and thrash him?" "I will smash and mash him." "You'll give him trouble?" "He will be rubble." "A mighty whack..." "His skull will crack!" "You'll pierce right through him?" "I'll barbecue him." "A wicked thrust...." "'twill be dust to dust." "From fore to aft...." "He'll feel a draft." "You'll disconnect him?" "I'll vivisect him." "You'll open wide him?" "I'll subdivide him!" I think she has a pretty good idea of what might happen to Lancelot in the jousts. So unless Guenevere is so stupid as to think that many of those things wouldn't result in death, I don't know how there can be any excuse for her goading the knights -- and, of course, stupidity at that level would be no excuse, either. I wonder if this is one of the reasons, other than length of the show, why "Take Me to The Fair" was cut CAMELOT during the Broadway run? Perhaps a belated realization by the creative team that it reveals Guenevere as quite a despicable person. And, let us keep in mind, at that point in the story, the reason she wants to see Lancelot maimed or killed is not because he has murdered her family but because.....she finds him conceited and full of himself. Just a BIT of an overreaction, I would say. |
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