Contemporary Retelling
- The 1898 Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame includes a chapter entitled The Reluctant Dragon, in which an elderly St. George and a benign dragon stage a mock battle to satisfy the townsfolk and get the dragon introduced into society. Later made into a film by Walt Disney Productions, and set to music by John Rutter as a children's operetta.
- In 1935 Stanley Holloway recorded a humorous retelling of the tale as St. George and the Dragon written by Weston and Lee
- The Dragon Knight, a series of books by Gordon R. Dickson, adopted this story as a past event into its canon, significant in that dragons had since referred to humans as 'georges.' The story of St. George and the Dragon is referred to on occasion, but never told. The first book in the series, The Dragon and the George, is a retelling of a previous short story by the same author, "St. Dragon and the George".
- In the 1950s, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler wrote and performed St. George and the Dragon-Net (a spoof of the tale and of Dragnet) for Freberg's radio show. The story's recording became the first comedy album to sell over 1 million copies.
- A 1975 episode of "Space: 1999" titled "Dragon's Domain" made reference to the legend of St. George and the Dragon. A crewman from the space station heroically kills a dragon-like creature after it has consumed other astronauts. The main character played by Barbara Bain eventually concludes that the crewman's story will create new mythology similar to the legend of St. George.
- The 1981 Paramount Pictures/Disney film Dragonslayer was loosely based on the tale.
- EC Comics published a comic called "By George!!" in Weird Fantasy #15. The story revealed that the 'dragon' was in fact a lost, misunderstood alien child who didn't mean any harm.
- Margaret Hodges retold the legend in a 1984 children's book (Saint George and the Dragon) with Caldecott Medal-winning illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman.
- American artist Butt Johnson uses the theme in a drawing entitled "Mario, Patron Saint of Brooklyn" portraying characters from the video game Super Mario Bros., and featuring Mario in the role of Saint George – slaying the "dragon" (King Koopa).
- The poem "Fairy Tale" by Yury Zhivago–the main character from Boris Pasternak's novel "Doctor Zhivago"–relates a modified account of this legend; Yury's poem differs in that it is nonreligious and makes no mention of the village.
- In Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, Saint George is chronicled as being the saint who killed Vlad Tepesh (also known as Dracula, which means "son of the dragon" or "son of the devil").
- In Graham McNeill's book Mechanicum, part of the Horus Heresy series, the story is retold and St. George is revealed to be the future Emperor of mankind.
- The animated series Ben 10: Ultimate Alien has Sir George, a thousand year old immortal who slays an extra-dimensional dragon called Diagon.
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