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Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Ivanhoe, a novel by Sir W. Scott, published 1819. The first of Scott's novels to deal with an English rather than Scottish subject: the antagonism in England between Saxon and Norman during the reign of Richard I. The hero, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, has been disowned by his father, Cedric the Saxon, because of his love for Cedric's ward, the lady Rowena, and has joined King Richard on Crusade; Prince John, taking advantage of the king's absence, is endeavouring to seize the throne himself. The story hinges on two main episodes: the famous tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche where Ivanhoe, returned in disguise from the Crusade, and supported by an equally disguised Richard, defeats all challengers, including the Templar, Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, and Sir Reginald Front-de-Bœuf; and the siege of Front-de-Bœuf's castle of Torquilstone, to which he and Bois-Guilbert have carried off Isaac the Jew and his daughter, Rebecca. The main plot thereafter concerns the passion of the Templar for Rebecca, and her resistance to his dishonourable advances. Bois-Guilbert dies in combat with Ivanhoe, who, reconciled to his father, marries Rowena; Rebecca, suppressing her love for Ivanhoe, leaves England with her father. Thackeray's Rebecca and Rowena is an amusing sequel to, and critical reinterpretation of, Scott's tale.
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Ivanhoe

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Ivanhoe, Australia, USA The three cities in the USA (in California, Minnesota, and Virginia) and the two in Australia (New South Wales and Western Australia) are all thought to be named after Walter Scott's novel published in 1819. The title and the name of the hero, actually Wilfred of Ivanhoe but called Ivanhoe, are fictitious.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Ivanhoe." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Ivanhoe

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Ivanhoe the hero of Scott's novel (1819) of that name, a knight of noble Saxon lineage at the time of the Crusades; he becomes a friend and supporter of Richard the Lionheart, despite the traditional enmity between Normans and Saxons, which Scott presents as having survived from the 11th century.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Ivanhoe." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Ivanhoe." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Ivanhoe.html

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Ivanhoe

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Copyright

Ivanhoe.
1. Opera in 3 acts by Sullivan (his only ‘grand opera’) to lib. by J. Sturgis after Scott's novel (1819). Comp. 1890. Prod. London 1891 (run of 160 perfs.); Berlin 1895; Boston 1991.

2. Pasticcio by Rossini, Paris 1826, CG 1829, NY 1832, rev. Mont Pellier 1990.
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Ivanhoe." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Ivanhoe." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-Ivanhoe.html

MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Ivanhoe." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-Ivanhoe.html

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