<P> The name of the villain in The Prisoner of Zenda , Rupert of Hentzau , is the title of the sequel novel , Rupert of Hentzau ( 1898 ) , published four years later , and is included in some editions of The Prisoner of Zenda . The popularity of the novels inspired the Ruritanian romance genre of literature , film , and theatre that features stories set in a fictional country , usually in Central Europe and Eastern Europe , such as Ruritania , the Central European realm that named the genre , which includes the Graustark novels by George Barr McCutcheon . </P>
<P> The name of the villain in The Prisoner of Zenda , Rupert of Hentzau , is the title of the sequel novel , Rupert of Hentzau ( 1898 ) , published four years later , and is included in some editions of The Prisoner of Zenda . The popularity of the novels inspired the Ruritanian romance genre of literature , film , and theatre that features stories set in a fictional country , usually in Central Europe and Eastern Europe , such as Ruritania , the Central European realm that named the genre , which includes the Graustark novels by George Barr McCutcheon . </P>
fictional european country invented for prisoner of zenda
fictional european country invented for prisoner of zenda
Ruritania
Ruritania