Theatre
- John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy: The Island of the Mighty (1972)
- Laurence Binyon: King Arthur (1923), with music by Edward Elgar
- D. G. Bridson: King Arthur (1937), with music by Benjamin Britten
- J. Comyns Carr: King Arthur (1895), with music by Arthur Sullivan
- Camelot (1960), by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White novel The Once and Future King. The main thrust of the novel and the musical play is the affair between Arthur's wife, Guenevere, and his great friend, Sir Lancelot. Camelot was filmed in 1967. Created by the team responsible for My Fair Lady, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, it starred Richard Burton as Arthur, Julie Andrews as Guinevere, and introduced Robert Goulet as Lancelot. The original cast album of the show was a particular favorite of then-President John F. Kennedy, and the "Camelot" metaphor has been often associated with his presidency.
- Merlin was a Broadway musical in 1983 featuring illusionist Doug Henning and music by Elmer Bernstein.
- Spamalot, adapted from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It won the 2004–2005 Tony Award for Best Musical. Arthur was played by Tim Curry in the original production.
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“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)
“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
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Then the theatre was changed
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