The Pendragon Society was founded in 1959 at Winchester by Jess Foster.
Pendragon is the Journal of the Pendragon Society, first produced in 1962 it is published four times a year and is devoted to Arthurian Studies.
Music
The Kinks, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Wagner, Parsifal
Wagner, Tristan and Isolde
Wagner, Lohengrin
Benedict Flynn, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Arthur Sullivan, King Arthur
Rick Wakeman's, Myths and Legends of King Arthur
Tom Byrne, The Last Druids
Purcell, King Arthur
Owen Archer, Excalibur
Steve Dunster, King Arthur Collection
Artorius
Movies
American versions of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, (1930 and 1948)
King Arthur was a Gentleman in 1942 starring Arthur Askey
Ava Gardner as Guinevere in the 1952 Knights of the Round Table, also featuring Robert Taylor and Robert Goulet
Camelot starring Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave
John Boorman's Excalibur (1980)
King Arthur, Young Warlord
Apocalypse Now - it's the grail legend in its raw form
The Sword in the Stone, Disney classic
First Knight with Sean Connery, Julia Ormond and Richard Gere
Quest for Camelot, a Warner Brothers classic
Jerry Bruckheimer's 2004 King Arthur
Television
Biography King Arthur (1999) TV ..ary produced by Sue Hayes. A look at the myths and mysteries surrounding the Arthurian legend. With contributions from leading literary historians Professor Stephen Knight, Dr Robert Dunning, David Edge and Dr Juliette Wood of The Folklore Society.
Books
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain
Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot or The Knight of the Cart
The Mabinogion
Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
Alfred Tennyson, The Idylls of the King
T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone
Geoffrey Ashe, The Discovery of Arthur
N. J. Higham, Myth Making and History
Heroes
The Pendragon Society Committee:
~ Fred Stedman-Jones
~ Chris Lovegrove
~ Simon Rouse
~ Anne Rouse
~ Dave Burnham
~ Anita Loughrey
It is with regret that we have to announce that the Pendragon Society will cease to operate in September 2009, after fifty years of activity in the Arthurian field. We have decided to close Pendragon on our 50th anniversary as we feel we have largely achieved what our founders set out to do at Winchester in 1959. Arthurian studies are now a worldwide interest – it is difficult to remember that when we started on our journey they were little more than stories told to children at their mother's knees - as Jess Foster our founder once wrote.
Arthur is alive and living everywhere now: television, films, books of all kinds and approaches, comics, games, enactment groups, artefacts, all bear witness to this. Our small circulation journal, excellent though it undoubtedly is, is a small fish in an ocean of information and competing interests. With over 3,800 hits on our website, we have an unfortunately diminishing number of subscribers to our journal, which has been our main activity and the reason for our existence for some time.
More positively, later this year we are publishing a 150 page Jubilee Book to commemorate our fifty years as an Arthurian Society. The content of the book will be an anthology of writing from the journal, all decades represented, with an outline chronology of the history of the Society.
For existing members the book will be counted as editions 36/3 and 36/4 against their subscriptions. No new membership subscriptions will now be accepted but copies of the Jubilee book will be available to non-members and may be ordered by contacting pendragon59.subs@btinternet.com
Our Secretary will advise you about costs and where to send your cheque, overseas buyers can pay via Paypal if they wish. Please send your inquiry before the end of June so that our print order can be finalised.
Some back numbers of the journal are still available for sale at only 50p a copy, if you are interested please ask for a list of these to be attached to our reply to your query.
The basis for the selection will depend on three principles: first, it will be a representative collection of over four decades of contributions; secondly, a balanced reflection of our three strands of study; and finally, feature as wide a range of past contributors as possible. In this way it is hoped the anthology will both entertain and educate in both quality and quantity, as well as providing a true and broad picture of Arthurian Studies -- and its students! -- over half a century.
For existing members, the book will be counted as editions 36/3 and 36/.4 against their subscriptions. No new membership subscriptions will now be accepted but copies of the Jubilee book will be available to non-members and may be ordered via our online payment arrangements - see the Journal section of this website. Back numbers of the journal are still available for sale at only 50p a copy to all , but you will need to order them before this website closes down soon.
Thank you for your interest and support now and in the past.
Our best wishes to you all on your personal quests for the
Once and Future King.
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. ~~ Sir Thomas Malory
Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May. Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora.
Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun ; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again, So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. ~~Robert Herrick
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