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/></a><figcaption>Frontispiece to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda" title="The Prisoner of Zenda">The Prisoner of Zenda</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hope" title="Anthony Hope">Anthony Hope</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Ruritanian romance</b> is a genre of literature, film and theatre comprising novels, stories, plays and films set in a <a href="/wiki/Fictional_country" title="Fictional country">fictional country</a>, usually in <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central</a> or <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>, such as the "<a href="/wiki/Ruritania" title="Ruritania">Ruritania</a>" that gave the <a href="/wiki/Genre" title="Genre">genre</a> its name.<sup id="cite_ref-encyc826_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encyc826-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Such stories are typically <a href="/wiki/Swashbuckler" title="Swashbuckler">swashbuckling</a> <a href="/wiki/Adventure_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Adventure novel">adventure novels</a>, tales of <a href="/wiki/Romance_(heroic_literature)#Relationship_to_modern_'romantic_fiction'" class="mw-redirect" title="Romance (heroic literature)">high romance</a> and intrigue, centered on the ruling classes, almost always aristocracy and royalty,<sup id="cite_ref-encyc826_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encyc826-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although (for instance) <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill_as_writer" class="mw-redirect" title="Winston Churchill as writer">Winston Churchill</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Savrola" title="Savrola">Savrola</a></i>, in every other way a typical example of the genre, concerns a revolution to restore rightful parliamentary government in the <a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">republican</a> country of Laurania. The themes of honor, loyalty and love predominate, and the works frequently feature the restoration of legitimate government after a period of usurpation or dictatorship. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_genre">History of the genre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruritanian_romance&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History of the genre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Romantic stories about the royalty of a <a href="/wiki/Fictional_country" title="Fictional country">fictional kingdom</a> were common, for instance <a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Prince_Otto" title="Prince Otto">Prince Otto</a></i> (1885). But it was the great popularity of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hope" title="Anthony Hope">Anthony Hope</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda" title="The Prisoner of Zenda">The Prisoner of Zenda</a></i> (1894) which set the type, with its handsome <a href="/wiki/Political_decoy" title="Political decoy">political decoy</a> restoring the rightful king to the throne, and resulted in a burst of similar <a href="/wiki/Popular_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Popular fiction">popular fiction</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/George_Barr_McCutcheon" title="George Barr McCutcheon">George Barr McCutcheon</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Graustark" title="Graustark">Graustark</a> novels (1901–27) and <a href="/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett" title="Frances Hodgson Burnett">Frances Hodgson Burnett</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Prince_(Burnett_novel)" title="The Lost Prince (Burnett novel)">The Lost Prince</a></i> (1915), <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burrough" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Rice Burrough">Edgar Rice Burrough</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mad_King" title="The Mad King">The Mad King</a></i> (1914), and <a href="/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda#Homages" title="The Prisoner of Zenda">other homages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In children's literature, the 1938–39 <a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin" title="The Adventures of Tintin">Adventures of Tintin</a> comic <i><a href="/wiki/King_Ottokar%27s_Sceptre" title="King Ottokar's Sceptre">King Ottokar's Sceptre</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> eschewed literal romance, but is an adventure about foiling a plot to depose the king of <a href="/wiki/Syldavia" title="Syldavia">Syldavia</a>. Literary critic <a href="/wiki/John_Sutherland_(author)" title="John Sutherland (author)">John Sutherland</a> says <a href="/wiki/Eric_Ambler" title="Eric Ambler">Eric Ambler</a> brought the Ruritanian romance to "its highest pitch" with his 1939 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mask_of_Dimitrios_(novel)" title="The Mask of Dimitrios (novel)">The Mask of Dimitrios</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An earlier venture into Ruritanian themes was Ambler's very first novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dark_Frontier" title="The Dark Frontier">The Dark Frontier</a></i> (1936), set in the fictional Balkan country of <a href="/wiki/Ixania" class="mw-redirect" title="Ixania">Ixania</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/George_MacDonald_Fraser" title="George MacDonald Fraser">George MacDonald Fraser</a>'s 1970 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Royal_Flash" title="Royal Flash">Royal Flash</a></i> and the 1975 film <i><a href="/wiki/Royal_Flash_(film)" title="Royal Flash (film)">Royal Flash</a></i> based on it are set in the fictional Duchy of Strackenz, and its plot freely borrows many elements of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hope" title="Anthony Hope">Anthony Hope</a>'s book; indeed, Fraser's protagonist <a href="/wiki/Harry_Flashman" title="Harry Flashman">Harry Flashman</a> audaciously claims that Hope had plagiarised his own exploits. </p><p>The genre was widely spoofed and mocked. <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Arms_and_the_Man" title="Arms and the Man">Arms and the Man</a></i> (1894) parodied many elements.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Sayers" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorothy Sayers">Dorothy Sayers</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Have_His_Carcase" title="Have His Carcase">Have His Carcase</a></i> (1932) featured as the murder victim a man deceived by his murderers because of his foolish belief in his royal ancestry, fed by endless reading of Ruritanian romances.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The <a href="/wiki/Marx_Brothers" title="Marx Brothers">Marx Brothers</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Duck_Soup_(1933_film)" title="Duck Soup (1933 film)">Duck Soup</a></i> (1933) is set in a bankrupt <a href="/wiki/Freedonia" title="Freedonia">Freedonia</a>. <a href="/wiki/Antal_Szerb" title="Antal Szerb">Antal Szerb</a>'s <i>Oliver VII</i> (1943) features a monarch of a fictional Central European state who plots a coup against himself and then flees to Venice in order to experience the life of an ordinary person. Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/A_King_in_New_York" title="A King in New York">A King in New York</a></i> (1957) starts with King Igor Shahdov being overthrown by a revolution in his Eastern European country Estrovia and coming to live in exile in New York. In the satire <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared" title="The Mouse That Roared">The Mouse That Roared</a></i> (1955), the Duchy of <a href="/wiki/Grand_Fenwick" title="Grand Fenwick">Grand Fenwick</a> attempts to avoid bankruptcy by declaring war on the United States as a ploy for gaining American aid. In <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov" title="Vladimir Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Pale_Fire" title="Pale Fire">Pale Fire</a></i> (1962), the main narrator has the delusion of being the incognito king of a "distant northern land" who romantically escaped a <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a>-backed revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-McC_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McC-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the comic film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Race" title="The Great Race">The Great Race</a></i> (1965), rally driver Professor Fate (played by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Lemmon" title="Jack Lemmon">Jack Lemmon</a>) is the double of the Crown Prince of the tiny kingdom of Carpania. </p><p>The popularity of the genre declined after the first part of the twentieth century. Aside from the change in literary taste, the royalist elements of Ruritanian romances became less plausible as many European monarchies receded even from memory, and their restorations grew less likely.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Many elements of the genre have been transplanted into <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_world" title="Fantasy world">fantasy worlds</a>, particularly those of <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_of_manners" title="Fantasy of manners">fantasy of manners</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alternate_history_(fiction)#Alternate_history_in_the_contemporary_fantasy_genre" class="mw-redirect" title="Alternate history (fiction)">alternate history</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-encyc827_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encyc827-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> writer <a href="/wiki/Andre_Norton" title="Andre Norton">Andre Norton</a> first reached success with a 1934 Ruritanian novel, <i>The Prince Commands</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-encyc827_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-encyc827-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although "Ruritania" originally referred to a <i>contemporary</i> country, the idea has been adapted for use in <a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">historical fiction</a>. A subgenre of this is <a href="/wiki/Historical_romance" title="Historical romance">historical romance</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Blake_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jennifer Blake (author)">Jennifer Blake</a>'s <i>Royal Seduction</i> and its sequel <i>Royal Passion</i>; both are set in the nineteenth century and feature Prince Rolfe (later King) and his son Prince Roderic respectively, of the fictional Balkan country of Ruthenia.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> (<a href="/wiki/Ruthenia" title="Ruthenia">Ruthenia</a> is a genuine geographic name, identifying an area of eastern Europe somewhat to the north of the <a href="/wiki/Balkan_Peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Balkan Peninsula">Balkan Peninsula</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Mountains" title="Carpathian Mountains">Carpathian Mountains</a>, but is not an independent country.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_Ruritanian_settings_in_fiction">Other Ruritanian settings in fiction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruritanian_romance&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Other Ruritanian settings in fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_European_countries" title="List of fictional European countries">List of fictional European countries</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a> created the character <a href="/wiki/Victor_Von_Doom" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Von Doom">Victor Von Doom</a>, absolute monarch of <a href="/wiki/Latveria" title="Latveria">Latveria</a> in the Balkans, who combines recognizable elements of a Ruritanian monarch with being a formidable comics <a href="/wiki/Supervillain" title="Supervillain">supervillain</a>. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Grand_Budapest_Hotel" title="The Grand Budapest Hotel">The Grand Budapest Hotel</a></i>, a 2014 comedy film written and directed by <a href="/wiki/Wes_Anderson" title="Wes Anderson">Wes Anderson</a>, is set in the fictional nation of Zubrowka, a central European alpine state teetering on the outbreak of war.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Peacher Series</i> by Michael Arram is 16 novels published online which occur largely in modern day Ruritania, renamed Ruthenia. <i>The Crown of Tassilo</i> is a second series of five more novels which occur in the period between Anthony Hope's novels (late 1880s) and modern day. The linked novels cover a wide range of genres but cover topics including the restoration of the Ruthenian monarchy, aristocratic intrigue, commoners, love, christianity, history of the fictional country, the Ruthenian language, and gay eroticism.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Avram_Davidson" title="Avram Davidson">Avram Davidson</a>'s Doctor <a href="/wiki/Eszterhazy" class="mw-redirect" title="Eszterhazy">Eszterhazy</a> stories are set in a fictitious ramshackle Balkan empire resembling Austria-Hungary, but with Ruritanian characteristics.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> set a number of short stories and a novel in the fictitious Eastern European land of "Orsinia",<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which has been identified as being simultaneously Ruritanian and naturalistic.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki" title="Hayao Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a>'s animated film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Castle_of_Cagliostro" title="The Castle of Cagliostro">The Castle of Cagliostro</a></i> is set in the fictional country of Cagliostro, inspired by Riviera and Monaco.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Student_Prince" title="The Student Prince">The Student Prince</a></i>, an operetta by <a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Romberg" title="Sigmund Romberg">Sigmund Romberg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Donnelly" title="Dorothy Donnelly">Dorothy Donnelly</a>, also adapted several times to film, has as its protagonist the heir apparent to the fictitious kingdom of Karlsberg who is sent away to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Heidelberg" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Heidelberg">University of Heidelberg</a> where he falls in love with a barmaid. The affair is doomed by his royal responsibilities when he is recalled to attend his dying grandfather, the king. Subsequent to his succession he is forced by duty to marry a well-<a href="/wiki/Dowry" title="Dowry">dowered</a> princess.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tin_Princess" title="The Tin Princess">The Tin Princess</a></i> is a 1994 children's novel by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a> set in the fictional Central European country of Razkavia.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruritanian_romance&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fictional_European_countries" title="List of fictional European countries">List of fictional European countries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">Alternate history</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruritanian_romance&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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title="John Grant (science fiction writer)">John Grant</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_Fantasy" title="The Encyclopedia of Fantasy">The Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a></i>, p. 826 <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px 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