 Tintagel is used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem "Idylls of the King" and Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Tristram of Lyonesse", a literary version of the Tristan and Iseult legend.Thomas Hardy's "The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse", a one-act play which was published in 1923, is another version of the same legend with events set at Tintagel (the book includes an imaginary drawing of Tintagel Castle at the period).Another version is Thomas Hardy's "The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse", a one-act play which was published in 1923.