The Scarlet Pimpernel (fandom)
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| Name: | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
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| Creator: | Emma Orczy |
| Date(s): | 1903 (play), 1905 (novel) |
| Medium: | play, novels, films, television series, musical |
| Country of Origin: | United Kingdom |
| External Links: | The Scarlet Pimpernel at Wikipedia |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is a play/novel (1903, 1905) by British author Emma Orczy set during the French Revolution. It has several sequels and numerous adaptations. Wikipedia credits its hero Sir Percy Blakeney, aka the Scarlet Pimpernel, as the original hero with a secret alter ego;[1] he has similarities to Bruce Wayne/Batman. Other characters include his wife, Marguerite St. Just, a French actress, her brother Armand, and Chauvelin, the main antagonist.
Some of the adaptations star well-known actors who have their own fanbases: Leslie Howard (1934 film), Anthony Andrews (1982 tv movie), Richard E. Grant (1999 tv series).
Fandom
The Scarlet Pimpernel has a small fanfic fandom. Fans have written fic for the novel and a few of its adaptations for Yuletide: 30 stories tagged with the novel between 2006 and 2021, four stories for the musical in 2009 and 2010, one story for the 1999 tv series in 2015, and two stories tagged with the 1982 tv movie in 2009 and 2020.
Example Fanworks
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by AMarguerite is a Harry Potter fanfic inspired by the novel (2007)
Fannish Links
- The Scarlet Pimpernel Fan Fiction Archive
- The Scarlet Pimpernel - All Media Types at AO3
- Scarlet Pimpernel at FanFiction.Net
- demmed_elusive, a Scarlet Pimpernel fan community on LiveJournal
- Sir Percy's Place, a long-standing Scarlet Pimpernel fansite[2] (1997–2005)
References
- ^ Wikipedia: The Scarlet Pimpernel (accessed 4 September 2015)
- ^ The Scarlet Pimpernel at the Open Directory Project, archived 16 August 2002 by the Wayback Machine.