Show Synopsis:
King Arthur and Guenevere are engaged to be married, but neither are particularly ecstatic about it until they actually meet. After five years of marriage, Arthur starts the Round Table to promote a new kind of knighthood, and Lancelot comes from France to join. Guenevere and Lancelot begin to fall in love, and it torments them for years. Mordred and Morgan Le Fay plot against Arthur to overtake the throne and Lancelot and Guenevere give into their passion. Lancelot is arrested and escapes, and Arthur is torn between letting Guenevere be happy and being a suitable king with an obedient wife. Lancelot takes Guenevere to France, prompting Arthur to go to war with France, though Mordred is also waging war against his army. Guenevere and Lancelot's relationship fails, Arthur forgives both of them, Guenevere goes to a nunnery, and Arthur tries to maintain the optimism and idealism that built the Round Table in the first place.

Character:
Guenevere, a young, intelligent maiden afraid of commitment

Song Context:
Guenevere wanders about in the woods, anxious of her impending arranged marriage.

Fun Facts:
1) This musical was originally based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King.
2) Frederick Loewe, the lyricist of Camelot, intended for this score to be his last if the show was unsuccessful.
3) In White?s book, Guenevere loves Lancelot completely and they have a torrid love affair, but in the musical, Guenevere keeps a love for Arthur that her passion for Lancelot cannot rival. This was largely done to help Julie Andrews keep her virginal ingenue image and character type alive.