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...Holy Year of Redemption, which extends through next Easter, and Martin Luther's 500th birth day. Lufthansa and several travel agents and religious organizations have planned a series of tours tracing Luther's life. One of the most recondite cultural vacations available is a 27-day Plantagenet tour of medieval England and France, a $3,945 trip arranged and led by Peter Gravgaard, a Danish citizen who has taught literature in the U.S. and Europe...
Under Channick's direction, The Lion in Winter neatly negotiates the emotional currents which propel the tortured Plantagenet family. A few times, only a few, Channick and cast falter: Eleanor's exclamation that Geoffrey has loved her all along comes out of nowhere, and Richard's homosexuality is discovered too suddenly, without sufficient preparation. By and large, however, the production zigzags its way excitingly forward, interrupted only by a series of excessively noisy and prolonged set changes between scenes...
From that simple situation-an impossible but inevitable marriage-unfolds The Pallisers' intricate plot. Glencora sparkles with good spirits and impetuosity. Plantagenet, admirably played by Philip Latham, has a manner so arid that he seems to exhale dust, like an overloaded vacuum cleaner, every time he speaks. Gradually, however, they grow-and grow believably -into love. Glencora gives up any notion of running away with the scoundrel Burgo Fitzgerald. Plantagenet, for his part, relinquishes his dream of becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer so that he can take her to the Continent. Eventually, however, he does become Chancellor, then Prime...
...young dissolute whom Trollope describes as the handsomest man in all England. The aunts thereupon pick up their skirts and march up to the old duke to present him with an inescapable fact: they have an eligible niece, while he has an eligible nephew-his heir, the aspiring politician Plantagenet Palliser. The duke sees the merit of the equation and gives his nephew a quick lesson in marital arithmetic. When Palliser demurs that he and Glencora do not love each other, the duke, with impeccable Victorian logic, retorts: "Love? We are talking about marriage...
...volumes and about 4,400 leisurely pages to tell the story. In dramatizing it, Raven has indeed taken considerable, but for the most part justifiable license with the material. Several subplots and some vivid characters have been eliminated entirely. Some important new scenes have been added-Glencora and Plantagenet are already married, for example, when Trollope begins the Palliser novels-and dialogue has been modernized. "I could seldom transcribe Trollope's text for more than two speeches at a time," says Raven. "I had to invent and deploy my own 'Trollopese...