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Line 1: {{~~trope~~creator}} [[File:Portrait of Rafael Sabatini.jpg\|thumb\|300px]] '''Rafael Sabatini''' (1875 - 1950) was an Italian-born English writer of historical adventure stories. The two best-known are ''[[Scaramouche]]'' and ''Captain Blood: His Odyssey'', both of which have been filmed multiple times. The 1935 film version of ''[[~~Captain Blood (Film)\|~~Captain Blood]]'' launched [[Errol Flynn]] to stardom. ---- {{bibliography}} ~~=== [[Rafael Sabatini]]'s works include: ===~~ * ''The Lovers of Yvonne'' (<small>AKA</small> ''The Suitors of Yvonne'') (1902) * ''The Tavern Knight'' (1904) Line 14 ⟶ 16: * ''The Strolling Saint'' (1913; revised 1925) * ''The Gates of Doom'' (1914) * ''The Sea Hawk'' (1915) -- Provided the title, but little else, for [[Errol Flynn]]'s 1940 ''[[~~The Sea Hawk (Film)\|~~The Sea Hawk]]'' * ''The Snare'' (1917) * ''[[Scaramouche]]'' (1921) Line 25 ⟶ 27: * ''The King's Minion'' (<small>AKA</small> ''The Minion'') (1930) * ''Scaramouche the Kingmaker'' (1931) * ''The Black Swan'' (1932) -- Adapted into a 1942 Tyrone Power film of the same name; [[Name's the Same\|not to be confused with]] Darren Aronofsky's [[Black Swan ~~(Film)~~\|similarly titled]] 2010 film. * ''The Stalking Horse'' (1933) * ''Venetian Masque'' (1934) Line 36 ⟶ 38: * ''The Gamester'' (1949) ---- ~~=== Works by Sabatini with their own trope pages include: ===~~ * ''[[Scaramouche]]'' ~~=== Sabatini's other works include the following tropes: ===~~ {{creatortropes}} * [[Hanging Judge]]: Judge Jeffreys in ''Captain Blood: His Odyssey''. * [[The Highwayman]]: Sabatini wrote many stories about highwaymen, including several concerning the fortunes of a charming rogue who called himself "Captain Evans". Line 48 ⟶ 46: * [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: King James II in ''Captain Blood: His Odyssey''. * [[Not in This For Your Revolution]]: This is a recurring theme in Sabatini's novels: a non-idealistic character is pointedly not supporting a less competent idealistic character on his/her quest. Then the forces the idealist opposes hurts the non-idealist or those he cares for. This is a Bad Move. * [[Scooby -Doo Hoax]]: "The Plague of Ghosts" * [[Swashbuckler]]: Most of what he wrote. * [[This Is My Name Onon Foreign]]: In ''Captain Blood: His Odyssey'', the title character Peter Blood is known as Don Pedro Sangre and Le Sang when dealing with the Spanish and French respectively. * [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]]: ''Captain Blood: His Odyssey'', ''The Sea Hawk'' Line 56 ⟶ 54: [[Category:Authors]] [[Category:Rafael Sabatini]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~