The Lady of Shalott Film Summary
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Next year is the bicentenary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate. As part of the international bicentenary celebrations, The Collection, Lincoln's museum, is bringing together an exhibition of Tennyson-inspired Pre-Raphaelite paintings including one of John William Waterhouse's paintings of The Lady of Shalott.

I am half sick of shadows

To complement the Tennyson exhibition at The Collection WAG Screen is making a film based on Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott.  We are filming a dramatisation of the poem based very closely on a number of Pre-Raphaelite paintings that the poem inspired, but especially those of John William Waterhouse and William Holman Hunt. We will also film Tennyson reciting his poem to a fictional after-dinner audience in 1856 (the date is specific for a number of reasons).
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The Collection houses a small cinema seating 125 (approx.) which, uniquely, has three screens in one, enabling three different scenes to be projected at once. We hope to be able to utilise this feature by having the three screens showing the events simultaneously; on the left Tennyson will recite the poem, the centre screen will show the dramatisation and the right screen will show Tennyson's audience.

Tennyson print

We have booked the exhibition space at Lincoln's Central Library for a Tennyson and Lady of Shalott Film related exhibition. We also plan to make, and show at this venue, a short documentary on the life of Tennyson made with the help of Grace Timmins of the Tennyson Resource Centre. The Resource Centre is housed at the Central Library. Second year undergraduates of Heritage Studies at Bishop Grossesteste University College will manage the exhibition.

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