#A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

[sassmill]

Y’all my suggestion for the next Victorian epistolary group read is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court it’s so funny and strange. Man from 1889 Connecticut gets whacked on the head so hard he ends up in Arthurian England and sets about modernizing society to bring an end to knight errantry as a trade. Has the vibes of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy meets Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

#take a shot every time hank Morgan says something to the effect of #‘oh my god are you still talking? you’re still talking. holy shit.’ #a Connecticut yankee in king Arthur’s court #mark Twain #Dracula daily

[sixty-silver-wishes]

shout out to mark twain for writing a connecticut yankee in king arthur’s court and the neck-snapping whiplash that came from reading that book

#mark twain #a connecticut yankee in king arthur’s court #arthurian literature #literature #man that book fucked me up #classic literature #I’m in a talk about classic lit mood today

[sublimegentlemanalpaca]

I wonder what would happen if Don Quixote after some severe head trauma found himself in Camelot in stead of our beloved Connecticut Yankee. Alternatively, if Hank found himself squire to the good Lord of Lamancha in place of Sancho or a certain badger. Either scenario sounds interesting. Like…what if Don Quixote crossed paths with King Pellinore? Imagine that

#CotIG #Don Quixote #Hank Morgan #A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court #Mark Twain #Miguel de Cervantes #Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica #CotIG sorta? #I think either scenario would be amusing

[shitakimooshrooms]

Writing this so I remember to draw it later;

Millicent and Morgana get into a fight over Morgana’s pursuit for power(Aguies has already left at this point. Probably around Morgana’s Betrayel.)(yes this is based off of that one Dream SMP audio, shut up.)

Millicent: Morgana, you forget yourself. (talking about how she is playing a dangerous game. More of a warning tone)

Morgana: Millicent, you forget where you stand next to me. You are in my shadow; act like it.

(Starts walking away. Looks over her shoulder)

Morgana: maybe it’s not a coincidence that all of your ideas have failed under your guidance. (Talking about how she, Merlin, and Aguies have tried to protect Camelot)

(turns away from her)

Morgana: You are a walking second place medal.

I just think the audio is cool and the angst potential is great. Not sure if it should be Millicent or if maybe it’s Aguies before she gets kicked out of Camelot. (Yeah she gets kicked out at some point. I’ve decided that I think it’s around when Gwen pretends to be Morgana because I think that’s the last time Lancelot is seen before he becomes a knight and I want the two of them to travel together so yeah. I feel like she still writes letters to Millicent and Morgana and at some point she sneaks back into Camelot to confront Morgana about this. Idk, let me know what y’all think.)

#Merlin #bbc merlin #morgana #Aguies #Yes I am making tags for them now #Aguies and Millicent excellent adventure #2 french ladies is King Arthur’s court #Tell me which tag I should use #Like for the official one for these OCs #merlin emrys #guinevere #merlin #arthur pendragon #Both of the au tag ideas are from other work titles #bill and teds excellent adventure #A Connecticut yankee in king Arthur’s court

[travern]

Sam Clemens – Inspector Spacetime 

Sam Clemens (pen name "Mark Twain") was an American writer and humourist, as well as a friend of the inventor Nikolai Tesla. He was played by American actor Hal Holbrook in the Season 3 serial ”The Legend Locators”.

When Tesla's time-travel experiment goes haywire and temporally maroons Sam sometime in the Dark Ages, the First Inspector and his associates Nikki and Trevor Saylor are called in to locate and rescue him. After the Inspector tracks him down to fifth-century Britain, they must save him from the brutal warlord Rigotamos, who has imprisoned him in his castle stronghold. Forcibly installed there as "court magician", he is in the process of modernizing Rigotamos's army with firearms and artillery when the Inspector reaches him. With the help of the local noblewoman Lady Layla of Dumnonia, they free Sam by disguising him as a jester and destroy his inventions before the warlord can use them.

In the conclusion, Sam announces that their adventure has provided him with the inspiration for his new novel, A Kensington Copper in King Arthur's Court. The departing Inspector suggests that it might need a little more work.

A new producer on the programme initially suggested titles for the serial that were all puns, e.g. "Never the Twain Shall Meet", "Twain Wreck", "Magician in Twaining", "The Knight Twain", and "Mark My Words". BTV executives overruled these as "too silly".

#Inspector Spacetime #Sam Clemens #Mark Twain #A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

[liridi]

Heyy, I'm starting to get interested in reading the Arthurian Legend/Story/Mith (?), and I was just wondering if you have any reccomendations on where to start with what books? I hope you have a nice day, Take care!

Oh thanks for the ask. I can only half answer this? I'm much better with my Greek myths. I've read a fair number of arthuriana texts but there are so many arthuriana blogs on here that faaar outmatch me with regards to the texts they've read.

I would personally start with Gawain and the Green Knight, I think it's a great entry point and one of the strongest texts in arthuriana. If you enjoy that one I think you're pretty much green lit to continue on.

Then it's a bit of a question what you want to do?

If you want an oversight of the "plot" of Arthuriana (ie. the rise and downfall of Camelot, from Arthur's conception to his death) you either want to start with the Vulgate Cycle (long but well written, the translation by Norris Lacy is recommended) or Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory (based on the Vulgate Cycle, it's shorter but still long, and worse written, but definitely the basis for later/modern arthuriana). These are inaccesible bricks of reading material, I'm still slogging through Le Morte, two years later. But they're pretty much the bedrocks at the bottom of our modern arthuriana "canon" (no such thing but you know what I mean) so :///

If you want more readable later adaptations that cemented our modern arthuriana "canon", you either want Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King or The Once and Future King by TH White.

If you want to keep reading short stories set in the Arthuriana world I recommend by personal favorite, the Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle. I've also been highly recommended The Knight of the Cart by Chretien de Troyes, the introduction of Lancelot and his affair with Guinevere. Courtly love!!!

But here I defer to @queer-ragnelle they can definitely give you a better answer.

Good luck!

#this doesnt even touch on modern classics like a connecticut yankee in king arthurs court #too many texts!!! #answered.liridi

[forthegothicheroine]

The problem with most adaptations of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is that they may get the humor, but they miss the anger. It's a very angry book. The narrator is angry about serfdom, angry that they are forbidden to learn to read, angry that a flighty mistress can kill one for no reason and legally get away with it, angry that King Arthur is a good man for his time but until he's experienced all this himself he just doesn't get it. (It took me a while to get it, myself- that Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and Puddinhead Wilson, was probably talking about something more than medieval feudalism.) The only version I've seen that captures this is, of all things, A Knight in Camelot with Whoopi Goldberg.

#a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #arthurian legend #kind of

[salticid]

marking some twain

#a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Eclipse-themed screenings at local theaters.

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[publicdomaincharacters]

Here is a public domain character,Hank Morgan from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

#public domain #hank morgan #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #king arthur

[thebeautifulbook]

A YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT [aka A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT] by Mark Twain [aka Samuel L. Clemens]. (New York: Webster, 1889)

book

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[idkaguyorsomething]

anyways, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that two of the very first science fiction novels were respectively the world’s most pathetic college dropout having to deal with his son getting his hands on edgy bible fanfiction and a cowboy getting isekai’d into arthurian times who decides to take over the world

#they are both far more depressing than you’d expect #frankenstein #mary shelly's frankenstein #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #holy hells mark twain i know the timeline has to remain stable and all that shit but did you have to destroy EVERYTHING like that

[lifes-commotion]

Rhonda Fleming

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[rjalker]

I edited out the caption since I couldn't read half of it

[ID: A greyscale illustration from the book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, showing a king with sword and shield, a pope, and a nobleman raising a glass of wine, all sitting or standing on the backs of a farmer who is belt double under their weight as he uses a scythe to harvest wheat. There is a rope or cloth around his neck that the nobleman pulls on like a reign, and the king has one foot directly on the back of the farmer's head. All of the rich people are fully clothes with expensive furs and cloths, and the farmer and barefoot, with nothing visible except his legs and arms. In the bottom right corner of this drawing is a smaller bubble with sillowet figures showing the farmer bucking off the three aristocrats like a horse, with his hands on the ground and his legs kicked back into the air, sending them all flying. End ID.]

This image is public domain.

#Rjalker reads stories of King Arthur #A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court #kill the rich #eat the rich #described images #public domain #public domain art #public domain illustrations

[gayboymint]

hank morgan thee guy ever

#a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #cotig

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: an old paperback copy of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The drawing on the cover shows a knight in full armour with part of his helmet cracked open to allow for a pipe, holding a match, and wearing a small badge that says "The Boss". End ID.]

I read this on Project Gutenberg years ago and it has remained one of the most unhinged things I've ever read (though it makes more sense when you notice it's really just a thinly-veiled political treatise about how kings suck and society should be more Socialist), so when I saw this cover in a cavernous second-hand shop I had to get it. I wonder if there's a cover of the main character pointing a gun at Merlin, which I'm fairly sure he does at one point.

#Mark Twain #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court