Editing Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Murder of Prince Arthur.jpg|thumb|Murder of Prince Arthur by Thomas Welly, 1754. Engraving after ''The Death of Arthur'' painted by [[William Hamilton (painter)|William Hamilton]], [[National Galleries of Scotland]].]]

===In literature===
The death of Arthur is a vital ingredient in [[Shakespeare]]'s history play ''[[The Life and Death of King John]]'', in which Arthur is portrayed as a child whose innocence dissuades Hubert de Burgh from committing the murder demanded by King John. However, Arthur soon dies after jumping from his place of confinement in an escape attempt.

In the 19th century, the [[Breton people|Breton]] poet [[Auguste Brizeux]] wrote of Arthur in ''La chasse du Prince Arthur''.

In the novel ''Saving Grace'' by [[Julie Garwood]], the heroine finds documents relating to Arthur's murder, committed under the orders of King John, by two of King John's barons. She is married to a Scottish [[Laird]], Gabriel MacBain, to escape England, but is harassed by both King John's barons and the English faction hoping to take down King John, each party unsure of how much she knows.

In [[Randall Garrett]]'s alternative-history fantasy stories, the [[Lord Darcy (omnibus)|Lord Darcy]] series, King Richard survives. John Lackland never becomes king, and the Plantagenet line, descending from Arthur, continues down to the present day.

In ''The Devil and King John'' by the Australian novelist [[Philip Lindsay]], Arthur is killed by John in a fit of temper, but he is shown as a rebellious adolescent who did provoke John to some extent, rather than the innocent child in some versions. In his introduction, Lindsay acknowledged that he had no evidence that this is what happened to Arthur, but he considered it to be as good a guess as any.

Other literary works featuring Arthur include:<ref>Eric Borgnis-Desbordes, ''Arthur de Bretagne (1187-1203), L'espor breton assassiné'', (Yorann Embanner, 2012), 305-327.</ref>
* ''[[The Troublesome Reign of King John]]'' (c.1589) anonymous tragedy
* ''Below the Salt'' (1957) novel by Thomas B. Costain
* ''Jean sans Terre ou la mort d’Arthur'' (1791) tragedy by [[Jean-François Ducis]]
* ''King John'' (1800) tragedy by [[Richard Valpy]]
* ''Le petit Arthur de Bretagne à la tour de Rouen'' (1822) poem by [[Marceline Desbordes-Valmore]]
* ''La Mort d’Arthur de Bretagne'' (1826) poem by [[Alexis Fossé]]
* ''Arthur de Bretagne'' (1824) tragedy by [[Joseph Chauvet]]
* ''Arthur de Bretagne'' (1885) drama by [[Louis Tiercelin]]
* ''Arthur de Bretagne'' (1887, posthumous) drama by [[Claude Bernard]]
* ''[[Hubert's Arthur]]'' (1935) novel by [[Frederick Rolfe]]
* ''Devil’s Brood'' (2008), ''Lionheart'' (2011) and ''A King’s Ransom'' (2014) novels by [[Sharon Kay Penman]]

===In music===
In 1912 the Breton composer [[Joseph-Guy Ropartz]] composed a [[symphonic poem]], ''La Chasse du Prince Arthur'' (Prince Arthur's Hunt) after the poem by Brizeux. The Breton [[Folk rock|folk-rock]] band [[Tri Yann]]'s 1995 album ''[[Portraits (Tri Yann album)|Portraits]]'' includes a song about Arthur.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://edoll.free.fr/portraits.html|title=Portraits (1995)|website=Tri Yann Site Officiel}}</ref>

===On television===
Arthur and his mother Constance appear as characters in a number of episodes of the 1950s British TV series ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]''. Arthur is portrayed by actors [[Peter Asher]] (three episodes, seasons one and two), [[Richard O'Sullivan]] (one episode, season three) and Jonathan Bailey (one episode, season four). [[Simon Gipps-Kent]] portrayed Arthur's life and torturous death in the 1978 BBC series ''[[The Devil's Crown]]''.