The bi-daily posts earlier this month was likely an indicator to that, but you may be surprised to discover that my readings had actually slowed down following my look at Look Back in Anger and The Prisoner of Zenda. 🙂Īnyways, welcome back! With this being my first year in university, I don’t think I should be surprised at the heap of literature that currently clutters my desk. I am aware that the title says otherwise, but I appreciate alliteration.
Wise Colonel Sapt responds, "The devil always gets into things." "God doesn't always make the best men kings," observes loyal courtier, Fritz van Tarlenheim.
Rudolph Rassendyll, who has been crowned King Rudolph V, and who has successfully rescued the true Rudolph V from a dire plot to murder him and put a regent on the throne of Ruritania, departs for the train, leaving Ruritania, and the woman who he loves and who loves him, behind forever.
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People don't know how to write like for the screen that any more. Most of all I enjoyed how efficiently this slender novel was turned into 6 episodes, each a bit less than a half hour. Not the least honorable is Princess Flavia. It shows how quickly someone who is king for a day becomes accustomed to being king forever - yet, Rassendyll is so honorable, at least as honorable as the honorables with whom he falls in with. It really plays up the Great British Empire upon which the sun never sets with Rudolph Rassendyll, a man of little money, position or accomplishment beyond his good schooling and Britishness, who shows he's better fit to be a monarch than any monarch.
It's sly and cheeky in all kinds of way that the books never were. Historian's nitpicks.īut watching the way this BBC production rolls and all its subtext, was so much more engrossing than the books. because it was Prussian! Also the Ruritanian crown was a enclosed crown, which only emperors or pope are entitled to wear. That wouldn't be possible, not in an independent kingdom by a monarch and his entourage, etc. This is why it was made of Prussian iron. would have been furious to see this honor that he devised intentionally to be the equal of honor of whoever it was awarded to, however rich, whatever rank or class, no matter how poor or lowly. Indeed, I laughed every time I saw the Prussian Iron Cross worn by the characters in this BBC production - though of course made of precious metals and studded with jewels and hung on jeweled gold chains. It could have a princeps, a duke, or something else equivalent but not a king! Even Queen Vicky's Hanover family's kingdom was annexed by Prussia in the mid-1860s. It was now Germany, so this little place could not have had a king. It was all those years of church school studies,but I did know by then the German states were no longer it was parts of the Holy Roman Empire - or as they called it even still, then, the Empire. Even then I knew about the Germanies and the Holy Roman the Empire then, though what I knew as sketchy. together out of the ancient jigsaw of the Holy Roman Empire. Even then these books seemed too glib in terms of how and what happens - and most of all, I could not believe in Ruritania or Graustark as independent monarchies existing in the late 19th C Europe after Bismark's unitary success pulling all those German principalities, dukedoms, etc. I didn't care for the Ruritania or George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark books much, even though I encountered them relatively early (for me), like the summer between junior and senior h.s. I fell love with this old BBC miniseries, oddly enough.
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