Reworking Twain's Connecticut Yankee
Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court has remained popular and influential since its publication in 1889. Frequently reprinted, translated, and adapted to the stage, it has been the source for retellings that send Hank Morgan and others back to Arthur’s time. Adapted as a play, it has also been reworked into more than a dozen films, going back to the 1921 silent version. With each new film that is made, the Yankee’s technology changes—from the cars and tanks of the 1931 Will Rogers remake to the jetpack and lunar rover of the 1979 Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) and Whoopi Goldberg’s laptop in A Knight in Camelot (1998).
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Classics Illustrated, no. 24.
A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court by Marianne Mancusi, 2005.
"A New York Yankee in King Arthur's Court", National Lampoon, 1982.
The 1920 Connecticut Yankee, program.
Movie still from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court starring Bing Crosby.
Movie still from A Connecticut Yankee starring Will Rogers.
Lobby card, Unidentified Flying Oddball, also titled A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court, 1979.
Still from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, a made-for-television movie starring Keshia Knight Pulliam, 1989.
Advertisement for A Knight in Camelot (1998), starring Whoopi Goldberg.
A Kid in King Arthur's Court lobby card (Spanish)/Aventuras en la Corte del Rey Arturo.