References in Television
- In the television adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley reads various stanzas of the poem and acts out the Lady of Shalott's tragic end as she floats down the river; lines from Tennyson's "Lancelot and Elaine" are also referenced. In the book, the poem enacted is consistently "Lancelot and Elaine".
- In the ITV series Lewis (Inspector Lewis in the US), episode titled "Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things", DS Hathaway quotes the line "Out flew the web and floated wide".
- Read aloud in an episode of Upstairs, Downstairs titled, "The Understudy." (1975)
- This poem forms the backbone of voice-over for the recent episode 'Tracie's Story' from BBC1 Drama 'Accused' starring Sean Bean as a transsexual in a highly destructive relationship with a married man.
- This poem is mentioned in one episode of 'Agatha Christie's Marple', called 'The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side' . Actually the name of the episode is from this Ballad. Referring to the 'Stare' on the face of the hostess of the party where the murder takes place.
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