In alt.legend.king-arthur Tim Bruening <tsbrueni@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
: PAUL GADZIKOWSKI wrote:
:> In alt.legend.king-arthur Tim Bruening <tsbrueni@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
:> : I still suggest that Arthur could have stalled for time by asking why
:> : Guenevere has been convicted of treason and by demanding to review
the
:> : evidence.
:> To what end? Really, how would it have served the story? There would
have
:> been a long scene consisting of talking heads as each knight who'd been
on
:> the scene when Lancelot was discovered repeated exactly the same story
to
:> Arthur as ewvery other, right at the climax of the play when tension
needs
:> to be building up toward the final catharsis with Tom on the
battlefield.
:> Way to destroy the mood.
:
: My suggestion is for Arthur in the Arthurverse, not for the writers of
the play.
Okay. Well, I still say, either Arthur doesn't bother challenging the
charges because he knows they're true, or because the trial before him in
which the charges are proved occurs offstage.
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