Of the many film adaptations, this is considered by many to be the definitive version. Selznick decided to produce the film, partly as a comment on the Edward VIII abdication crisis, and it was directed by John Cromwell.
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) - Starring Ronald Colman as Rassendyll and Rudolph, Madeleine Carroll as Princess Flavia, Raymond Massey as Michael, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Princess Flavia (1925), an operetta with the score by Sigmund Romberg. It was adapted by Mary O'Hara and directed by Rex Ingram. The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) - Starring Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes, Malcolm McGregor and Barbara La Marr. Courtney Rowden and directed by George Loane Tucker. The Prisoner of Zenda (1915) - Starring Henry Ainley, Gerald Ames, George Bellamy, Marie Anita Bozzi, Jane Gail, Arthur Holmes-Gore, Charles Rock and Norman Yates. Porter, it was produced by Adolph Zukor and was the first production of the Famous Players Film Company. Adapted by Hugh Ford and directed by Ford and Edwin S. Hackett, Beatrice Beckley, David Torrence, Fraser Coalter, William R. The Prisoner of Zenda (1913) - Starring James K.
Sothern and the next year on the West End, co-written by Hope and Edward Rose. The Prisoner of Zenda (1895-96) opened as a play in New Yorkin 1895 starring E. The dashingly villainous Rupert of Hentzau has been played by such matinee idols as Ramon Novarro (1922), Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Probably the best-known version is the 1937 Hollywood movie. In the end, the King is restored to his throne - but the lovers must part.Īdaptations The novel has been adapted many times, mainly for film but also stage, musical, operetta, radio, and television. There are complications, plots, and counter-plots, among them the schemes of Michael's mistress Antoinette de Mauban, and those of his villainous henchman Rupert of Hentzau, and Rassendyll falling in love with Princess Flavia, the King's betrothed. When Michael has Rudolf drugged, abducted and imprisoned in the castle in the small town of Zenda, Rassendyll must impersonate the King at the coronation. The novel seems sympathetic, however, with those who would support the dissolute despot, King Rudolf. Michael is regarded as champion of Strelsau's working classes, both the proletariat and the peasants, and of what Hope refers to as the criminal classes. Michael has no legitimate claim to the throne, because he is the son of their father's second, morganatic marriage: there are hints, from his swarthy appearance (he is nicknamed Black Michael) and Rassendyll's elliptically referring to him as a "mongrel", that he may be partly Jewish. The political rival to this absolute monarch is his younger half-brother Michael, Duke and Governor of Strelsau, the capital. Rudolf Elphberg, the crown prince, is a hard-drinking playboy, unpopular with the common people, but supported by the aristocracy, the Catholic Church, the army, and the rich classes in general.
Ruritania is, like Germany and Austria-Hungary at that time, an absolute monarchy. Rudolf Rassendyll, younger brother of the Earl of Burlesdon and (through an ancestor's sexual indiscretion) a distant cousin and look alike of Rudolf V, the soon-to-be-crowned King of Ruritania, a "highly interesting and important" Germanic kingdom somewhere imprecisely between the German and Austrian Empires. The narrator is twenty-nine year old the Hon. The books were extremely popular and inspired a new genre of Ruritanian romance, including the Graustark novels by George Barr McCutcheon.ġ Plot summary 2 Adaptations 3 Homages 4 Legacy 5 See also The villainous Rupert of Hentzau gave his name to the sequel published in 1898, which is included in some editions of this novel. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation.
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. (paperback edition) ISBN 0-14-043755-X (paperback edition)įrontispiece to the 1898 Macmillan Publishers edition, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson. Publication date 1894 Media type Pages ISBN Penguin Classics New Ed edition (January 1, 2000) For other uses, see The Prisoner of Zenda (disambiguation).
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