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...play's other actors try for less serious performances. Mike Gaw and Robert P. Chapski wryly exaggerate their cameos as Portia's unsuccessful suitors. Jeff Hobson is a nicely lecherous Lancelot Gobbo. Phil Fry squeezes the maximum comedic possibilities from his roles as servant Stephano and the blind Old Gobbo...
...greatest living Southern novelist. His canon is as solid as any contemporary American's, north or south of the Mason-Dixon. The Moviegoer, Percy's first and best novel, received the National Book Award in 1962 and the works that followed--The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, and The Second Coming--established a critical and commercial cult following that was, and is, highly deserved...
Three of Author Walker Percy's five previous novels bear titles with implications of apocalypse: The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins and The Second Coming. The other two, The Moviegoer and Lancelot, are exceptions in name only. For all of Percy's fiction revolves around a central question: can humane, civilized life survive this murderous, mechanized century? Details change from book to book, but a number of constants recur. The hero is typically a Southerner and a loner, a weirdo in the eyes of friends and relatives, whose despair at the decline of civilization has lured him into alcoholism...
...beyond the scrimmage line, as the best coaches know. San Francisco's Bill Walsh could make a serviceable quarterback out of an usher, but no one can be taught to lift a team the way Joe Montana raised the 49ers 55 days after back surgery. "Armies work hard for Lancelot," Guard Randy Cross says, "harder for King Arthur." At 38, oft- deposed Raider Jim Plunkett keeps coming back to reign in Los Angeles...
Those who have always dreamt of Lancelot's glorious chivalry can enroll in Engl S-114, "Knights and Ladies: The Changing Vision of Romance." With Harvard Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature John T. Koch at the helm of the round table, students will discuss medieval romance...