Talk:The Lady of Shalott

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I'm not favorably impressed with page layouts with a strip of illustrations down the right-hand side like a booklet of postage stamps. Can anyone make out any detail with the images reduced like this? --Wetman 03:01, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • What do you mean reduced? Do they look small to you? They are 300px wide. Paradiso 03:21, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Well, they do. But these are very detailed paintings, and one can always click on the image for a closer look. --Wetman 03:34, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hm. Not sure if it fits (or if it does, where?), but there's a French play that's been adapted into an English-language film, with a remarkably similar name, exploring similar themes, though through a profoundly different path, and ensuing outcome.

This Madwoman is "cursed" to live among the dregs of society, has a number of friends (all of them Mad, some of them imaginary) and falls rather in... hate with her own version of Lancelot. Instead of being lured out to Camelot to her own doom, she uses arcana to lure him into her tower (tenement basement) presumably to his.

At any rate, there's enough symmetry and (deliberate?) inversion between the two tales, that I wonder very much if the latter was inspired by, or influenced by Tennyson's poem. I'll ask in the other (Madwoman) side of the Wiki, to see if anyone can assent to a traceable connection, or if it's mere coincidence. --Raduga 17:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Either was or forget it...

"...is commonly believed to have been loosely based..." Waffle. Damp waffle. It is based on Malory or it isn't. It is loosely based or it is directly based. What is "commonly believed" is without interest or relevance, as much here as elsewhere. --Wetman 23:01, 25 July 2007 (UTC)