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Week 14: Final Project Finished Draft

Camelot: Rethinking the RenFair Camelot is a historically themed Dark Ages theme park focused on telling the history and lifestyle of Dark Ages England and their neighbors through the legends of King Arthur, both the well-known ones and the obscure ones. The goal of this park is to entertain and educate by creating a genuine historical experience with a living museum and presenting it not as a clinical reenactment but as an interactive adventure where guests can experience the history for themselves. The park is a return to the original purpose of reenactment, while reinvigorating it to make the purposes of research and education more readily appealing and accessible to an audience. Because much of the average person's perception of history, the medieval period perhaps more so than any other, is based on myths and misconceptions from movies, games, comics, and other popular culture, Camelot seeks to inject historical fact back into the pop culture, and help to correct the