Grumbkow & Seckendorf: We’re the incredibly dumb evil stooges of this play. The clever evil schemer is someone else, to wit:
FW’s valet Eversmann: Me!
WHAT
I thought Maria Theresia's dad made a much better Disney villain, and that's saying something!
G, S, E: Sire, Archduke Leopold the future Emperor is asking for your daughter’s hand!
Me: *blinks* I thought... there was this whole thing with the Pragmatic Sanction...? [personal profile] selenak: WHO? Me: Oh good, it's not me this time! Wikipedia and mildred, more or less in unison: Charles had a son Leopold who died at age SEVEN MONTHS.
...There was a lot of my eyebrows contorting rather a lot reading this, I will have you know! Although I think it is hilarious that the Potsdam Giants showed up, because I think it is meta-hilarious that LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THE WORLD EXCEPT FW thinks the Potsdam Giants are hilarious!
resumably the one publication Gutzkow must have read when doing research for this are Wilhelmine's memoirs. Can you imagine reading them and coming up with this plot?
MAN. I still don't know where Leopold came from, but as for the rest of it, the only thing I can think of is a) lots of alcohol b) Gutzkow must have desperately wanted Wilhelmine to have a happy ending and a happy marriage as I did by the time I was done with volume 1 (I still haven't finished Vol 2).
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FW’s valet Eversmann: Me!
WHAT
I thought Maria Theresia's dad made a much better Disney villain, and that's saying something!
G, S, E: Sire, Archduke Leopold the future Emperor is asking for your daughter’s hand!
Me: *blinks* I thought... there was this whole thing with the Pragmatic Sanction...?
[personal profile] selenak: WHO?
Me: Oh good, it's not me this time!
Wikipedia and mildred, more or less in unison: Charles had a son Leopold who died at age SEVEN MONTHS.
...There was a lot of my eyebrows contorting rather a lot reading this, I will have you know! Although I think it is hilarious that the Potsdam Giants showed up, because I think it is meta-hilarious that LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THE WORLD EXCEPT FW thinks the Potsdam Giants are hilarious!
resumably the one publication Gutzkow must have read when doing research for this are Wilhelmine's memoirs. Can you imagine reading them and coming up with this plot?
MAN. I still don't know where Leopold came from, but as for the rest of it, the only thing I can think of is a) lots of alcohol b) Gutzkow must have desperately wanted Wilhelmine to have a happy ending and a happy marriage as I did by the time I was done with volume 1 (I still haven't finished Vol 2).