PAUL GADZIKOWSKI wrote:
> You live in a twenty-first century republic. In a middles-ages inherited
> monarchy, when the belief is that the royal family is God-anointed to
> rule, for the queen to go mucking about with the succession (by, for
> instance, giving birth to another man's son - or even just risking it)
> does constitute treason, to the king and to God. I haven't seen or read
> Camelot recently enough to be certain how well that point is got across,
> but there you are.
It doesn't matter, really. In 1960, Lerner and Lowe could expect that
everyone in the audience over the age of twelve would know the story.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
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