The story is told in a frame format‹Twain meets a stranger while touring Warwick Castle, England, who presents him with a manuscript of his memoirs. The stranger is Hank Morgan, a Connecticut factory superintendent and self declared "Yankee of the Yankees" who fights with one of his men, Hercules, and is knocked out when he is hit in the head with a crowbar. He awakes to find himself in a bucolic landscape being charged by a knight in armor. Hank is taken prisoner by Sir Kay, the seneschal of Arthur's court and brought to Camelot. Thinking that he has landed in an asylum , Hank goes along with his captor, determined to escape or "run the show." He enters Arthur's court and meets a garrulous paige named Clarence who immediately befriends him…

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