| re: Guinevere - Likable | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 02:14 pm EDT 08/08/20 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 02:13 pm EDT 08/08/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Guinevere - Likable - Michael_Portantiere 01:48 pm EDT 08/08/20 | |
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| Just my opinion, but I think that ultimately you're seeing the song so incredibly literally, and I'm not sure it was meant to be taken that way. This is still a "musical comedy," (meant in the "most glorious words" kind of way) even with darker elements, and I think if this were meant to be a much more serious song, we'd hear that tone in the music (which is very playful) let alone the lyrics. To add to that, the answer to the 2nd question (where is the King in all of this) - she's flirting, and the knights are flirting back. It's the lusty month of May, after all. Clearly, the seriousness of being Arthur's husband is something she wrestles with as well, but here I don't think this is all more than fun. And maybe the knights enjoy her insinuations, even if they know that they can't really have her. You know, it's like believing in a town that only comes to life once every hundred years. Not everything has to be literal/serious/heavy, and even as late as Camelot, I think musicals were still exploring a good deal of escapism, which is perfectly legitimate. I'm not saying you don't make good points, but I don't think that the material really stands up to such rigorous analysis. Lerner and Loewe were still writing to entertain their audience, not to provide a scholarly treatise on the myth of King Arthur. Even in Sweeney Todd, isn't the JOY and FUN of "A Little Priest" that neither of them are really thinking of the consequences of what they're proposing? Food for thought, lol? |
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