The Romance of King Arthur: A Pageant

Pageant type

Notes

Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' undertaken by Mick Wallis; with thanks to Joanne Hillman of the Cornish Studies Library, Redruth.

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Performances

Place: Tintagel Vicarage (Tintagel) (Tintagel, Cornwall, England)

Year: 1929

Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors

Number of performances: 1

Notes

15 August 1929

Name of pageant master and other named staff

  • Producer [Pageant Master]: Morrell, Beatrice

Names of executive committee or equivalent

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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)

  • Morrell, Beatrice

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Audience information

Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest

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Pageant outline

Key historical figures mentioned

  • Arthur (supp. fl. in or before 6th cent.) legendary warrior and supposed king of Britain [also known as Artorius ?, King]

Musical production

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Newspaper coverage of pageant

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Book of words

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Summary

Very little is known about this small Cornish pageant, which was evidently focused on the myth-history of King Arthur. The medieval ruins of Tintagel Castle have of course long been closely associated with Arthurian legend.

Footnotes

How to cite this entry

Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘The Romance of King Arthur: A Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1553/