King Arthur and Robin Hood on the Radio

Adaptations for American Listeners

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Radio
Cover of the book King Arthur and Robin Hood on the Radio by Katherine Barnes Echols, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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Author: Katherine Barnes Echols ISBN: 9781476630007
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: August 23, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Katherine Barnes Echols
ISBN: 9781476630007
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: August 23, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

Before stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood were adapted and readapted for film, television and theater, radio scriptwriters looking for material turned to Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur (1485) and Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883). Throughout the 1930s to the mid–1950s, their legends inspired storylines for Abbott and Costello, Popeye, Let’s Pretend, Escape, Gunsmoke, The Adventures of Superman and others. Many of these adaptations reflect the moral and ethical questions of the day, as characters’ faced issues of gender relations, divorce, citizenship, fascism, crime and communism in a medieval setting.

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Before stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood were adapted and readapted for film, television and theater, radio scriptwriters looking for material turned to Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur (1485) and Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883). Throughout the 1930s to the mid–1950s, their legends inspired storylines for Abbott and Costello, Popeye, Let’s Pretend, Escape, Gunsmoke, The Adventures of Superman and others. Many of these adaptations reflect the moral and ethical questions of the day, as characters’ faced issues of gender relations, divorce, citizenship, fascism, crime and communism in a medieval setting.

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