The Prisoner of Zenda (Ruritania)
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The Prisoner of Zenda (), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable. Ruritania is a fictional country in central Europe which forms the setting for three books by Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda (), The Heart of Princess.
Hackett in the lead, it became a lucrative stage swashbuckler, and toured the country for years. Ruritania moved fairly seamlessly from stage to screen. Sound-era versions have included the Prisoner of Zenda , which featured Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll; a adaptation, which is essentially a color remake of the previous film, with Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr; and a comedy, featuring Peter Sellers and Lynne Frederick.
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There has been no significant film version since then. Apart from adaptations, The Prisoner of Zenda has also inspired countless imitations.
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Dozens of novels in the Ruritanian vein were published in the s and early twentieth century. In Britain these included Sydney C. In the first of these the wealthy but idle Grenfall Lorry falls in love at first sight with a mysterious young woman whom he meets aboard a train in the U. There he discovers that the lovely Miss Guggenslocker is really the beleaguered Princess Yetive, and he wins her hand by saving her from the machinations of her enemies.
Beverly of Graustark revises the usual Ruritanian plot, placing a young American heroine at the centre of the action: Subsequent novels take the history of Graustark as far as the s, when the tiny country is menaced by socialists before another American hero saves the day.
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Once as well known as The Prisoner of Zenda , the series helped to make McCutcheon a wealthy man, with a collection of paintings by Millet and Corot, and a peerless library of first editions of Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling. Adaptations ensured that the kingdom of Graustark was also known to many who had never read the books: These concern, respectively, Barovia, Lichtenburg, Concordia, and Gaillardia.
Sequels covered, among other topical subjects, the space race, and the oil crisis. The Mouse that Roared was adapted for the screen in , with Peter Sellers in multiple roles, and its sequel, The Mouse on the Moon in That there has been no significant film or television version of The Prisoner of Zenda itself for more than thirty years may indicate that the original adventure formula really has become stale, and no longer performs the cultural work it once did.
The name Ruritania now appears most often in legal, political and economic textbooks when an imaginary country is needed to map out a particular scenario, e.
The screen comedy, Dave , for instance, republicanizes the impersonation plot with an American presidential lookalike.