ABSTRACT
The limited-run television musical comedy series Galavant (2014–2015) chronicled the comic quest of the dashing knight Galavant to find true love. Broadway and film veterans Alan Menken and Glenn Slater created original songs for the series, which was created and written by Dan Fogelman. This chapter investigates how Gérard Genette's concepts of architextuality and intertextuality allow for the clever refraction of musical theatre tropes and twenty-first-century views of race, gender, and social class onto a thirteenth-century fictionalised Iberian realm. Especially notable is a double use of architextuality, whereby structural elements such as genre expectations are the means to connect texts. In Galavant, this occurs when a trope associated with the musical theatre is placed within a mode of musical performance from the Middle Ages.
