Have any of you ever read the book Ivanhoe? I hope not. I read it in high school, and it was awful. I hated it. Because even I could barely get through it, I realized that no one else would read it either. Thus, I wrote up a cheat sheet with everything that happened in the book and characters and sold it for $5 a piece. I made quite a bit of money off it.
Anyway, I was going through my files and found this and thought I'd post it for everyone. Free of charge, of course, and you can learn the entire plot of Ivanhoe in five minutes instead of a week. Without further ado...
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Ivanhoe: Like traveling through a great and adventurous forest while slogging through waist-deep mud during a downpour. –Ed.
The Characters (in order as they appear)
Note: there are more but they are mentioned only once or have no relationship to the rest of the story, and so they can’t be considered important characters. The servants listed here were mentioned pretty frequently, although they are not main characters.
GURTH (a.k.a. the swineherd) slave of Cedric, later freed. Friend of Wamba. Accompanies Ivanhoe to the lists at Ashby; usually in the middle of the story
-FANGS Gurth’s dog, really unlucky
WAMBA (a.k.a. the Jester) slave of Cedric, but refuses to be freed (he is a fool). In the beginning, hangs around Gurth mostly, near the end he travels with King Richard.
PRIOR AYMER (a.k.a. Prior of Jorvaulx Abbey, the Prior)-lover of good times, expensive clothes, and feasting
BRIAN DE BOIS-GUILBERT (a.k.a. the Templar)-great warrior, enemy of Ivanhoe; falls in love with Rebecca
WILFRED OF IVANHOE (a.k.a. Ivanhoe, the Pilgrim, the Palmer, the Disinherited Knight)-son of Cedric, follower of King Richard, in love with Rowena, chivalrous knight
CEDRIC THE SAXON-caretaker of Rowena and father of Ivanhoe; wants the return of Saxon kings to England and hates Normans
LADY ROWENA-descendant of Alfred, Ivanhoe’s girlfriend, engaged to Athelstane (Cedric’s idea) at first but allowed to marry Ivanhoe in the end; very beautiful
-ELGITHA-Rowena’s maid, not important but she gets mentioned often
HUNDEGERT & OSWALD-servants of Cedric the Saxon; not important but they keep popping up like Elgitha
ISAAC OF YORK (a.k.a. the Jew)-wealthy Jewish merchant, father of Rebecca
PRINCE JOHN (a.k.a. John of Anjou)-tries to take over England while Richard goes off to the Crusades; nasty guy
REBECCA (a.k.a. the Jewess)-daughter of Isaac, loves Ivanhoe; very beautiful, strong-willed, and intelligent, skilled doctor
ROBIN HOOD (a.k.a. the yeoman, the woodsman, the outlaw, Diccon, Locksley)-do I really have to tell you?
ATHELSTANE OF CONINGSBURGH (THE UNREADY)-descended from Edward the Confessor, engaged to Rowena, never quite prepared for anything, hence his nickname.
MAURICE DE BRACY-always hanging around John, goes after Rowena and much like how Bois-Guilbert goes after Rebecca
WALDEMAR FITZURSE-John’s counselor (aide and helper)
REGINALD FRONT-DE-BOEUF-brutish, mean-hearted nasty character; his family massacred the family of Ulrica and took their lands and their castle; gets mortally wounded in battle but dies when his burning castle collapses on him
PHILIP DE MALVOISIN-never speaks, almost never does anything in the story, but he gets mentioned often and is important in his connections with other characters
REUBEN-servant of Isaac and Rebecca; not important but keeps getting mentioned like those other danged servants
KING RICHARD (a.k.a. Coeur-de-Lion, Le Noir Fainéant (the Black Sluggard), the Black Knight, the Black Champion, the Knight of the Fetterlock)-king of England, returned from the Crusades; he wanders around killing time while those loyal to him gather troops
FRIAR TUCK (a.k.a. the hermit, the anchorite, the Clerk of Copmanhurst, the Friar)-prays by day and hunts deer illegally by night; one of Robin Hood’s merry men
ULRICA (a.k.a. Ulfried, the old hag, the old woman)-vengeful last survivor of her massacred family; starts the fire in Torquilstone that destroys the castle and kills her and Front-de-Boeuf
NATHAN BEN SAMUEL [ISRAEL] (a.k.a. the Rabbi, the physician) not important but mentioned more than once
LUCAS BEAUMANOIR (a.k.a. the Grand Master)-head of the Knights Templar; hateful, cruel, and bigoted old man
CONRADE MONT-FITCHET (a.k.a. the preceptor) Templars at Templestowe; Albert is
ALBERT DE MALVOISIN (a.k.a. the preceptor) the one usually called the preceptor.
Albert is also Philip’s brother.
HIGG, SON OF SNELL Rebecca’s medicine saved his life.
Important Locations
Rotherwood - home of Cedric and Rowena
Ashby-de-la-Zouche – location of the lists (place where knights battle in tournaments; these later became jousts) where Ivanhoe is victorious and declares Rowena to be the Queen of Love and Beauty, and also where he gets injured.
Torquilstone - Front-de-Boeuf’s castle.
Templestowe – Court of the Knights Templar
-preceptory of Templestowe – where the final battle between Ivanhoe and Bois-Guilbert takes place
Coningsburgh – castle and home of Athelstaine.
Amy's Guide to Ivanhoe
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Basic Plot
Note: all new characters are listed in BOLD PRINT.
Chapter One: Background on the time and place. Introduces GURTH and WAMBA. Long descriptions of their clothes. They moan about the Normans, the invasion, and the sad life Saxons live, while FANGS makes a big mess of the pigs.
Chapter Two: Introduces PRIOR AYMER and BRIAN DE BOIS-GUILBERT, again with excessive descriptions of their clothes. They were together in a caravan, looking for a place to stay for the night. They meet Gurth and Wamba and ask for directions, but the two intentionally give wrong directions. The Templar and the Prior get directions from IVANHOE (the Palmer) and end up at Rotherwood anyway just as the rain starts pouring.
Chapter Three: Introduces CEDRIC THE SAXON. Excessive descriptions of Rotherwood’s interior and Cedric’s clothes. Cedric sits around moaning about Wilfred (Ivanhoe) and wanting Wamba to come entertain him; then the Templar and the Prior barge in.
Chapter Four: Introduces LADY ROWENA. The Templar thinks she’s really pretty.
Chapter Five: Introduces ISAAC OF YORK. He got caught in the storm, but nobody cares because he’s Jewish. The others talk about a tournament in the Holy Land, when suddenly Ivanhoe (the Palmer, the Pilgrim) butts in and tells them what happened and who was involved, conveniently ‘forgetting’ himself. Somehow none of them recognize him. The enmity between Ivanhoe and the Templar is introduced here also.
Chapter Six: ‘The Palmer’ talks to Rowena and assures her that Ivanhoe will return. Then he helps Isaac escape to his home. While leaving, Ivanhoe whispers in Gurth’s ear, revealing his true identity. Isaac gives Ivanhoe a scroll to let him borrow a horse and a suit of armor from a friend.
Chapter Seven: Background on the pitiful conditions of life under Prince John. Descriptions of the tournament at Ashby, the sights and the people. Isaac goes there with daughter REBECCA. They’re treated badly (they always get treated badly because they’re Jews; it goes on throughout the rest of the book) by a yeoman (ROBIN HOOD), and then Prince John sees Rebecca and sees her beauty, so he tells the Saxon nobles to move over and let them sit. Introduces ATHELSTAINE here. He won’t move, so John tells DE BRACY to poke him with a lance; Cedric cuts off the tip of the lance with his short sword. Wamba knocks Isaac down and humiliates him.
Chapter Eight: Prince John wants to make Rebecca the Queen of Love and Beauty but the Prior says no, so he says the winner of the tournament will name her (De Bracy’s idea). Introduces WALDEMAR FITZURSE. Rules of the tournament and badly written images of the fighting. In enters the Disinherited Knight, our old friend Ivanhoe. He wins.
Chapter Nine: The ‘Disinherited Knight’ refuses to reveal his identity. Prince John and his friends argue over who he could be. Ivanhoe makes Rowena the Queen of Love and Beauty.
Chapter Ten: Ivanhoe sends Gurth to Isaac’s house to pay for the armor. Gurth doesn’t want to but does anyway. Long descriptions of the house. Gurth pays Isaac, but Rebecca secretly gives all the money and then some back.
Chapter Eleven: Gurth gets caught by a band of robbers. They want to steal his money but Gurth beats their leader in quarter-staff (large, thick stick) duel and they let him go.
Chapter Twelve: Descriptions of the joust. Ivanhoe gets attacked by three people at once and is rescued by the Black Knight (KING RICHARD). The Black Knight then wanders off while the Templar and Ivanhoe battle; the joust is ended prematurely and they don’t get to finish their battle. Prince John declares Ivanhoe the winner. So Rowena can crown him, Ivanhoe takes off his helmet so everybody sees him. Then he passes out and they discover that he was badly wounded.
Chapter Thirteen: A plan is made to force Rowena to marry De Bracy. Prince John gets a letter telling him that King Richard had been released from prison. The archery tournament started. A man named Locksley (Robin Hood) won by his amazing shooting skill and got a hunting horn.
Chapter Fourteen: Cedric and Athelstane go to a big party hosted by Prince John; the Normans embarrass and insult them, so Cedric drinks a toast to King Richard that crashes the party.
Chapter Fifteen: Waldemar tries to pick up the broken pieces of the party and get everybody there loyal to John again, mainly by bribing them. He sends out De Bracy to pose as an outlaw and capture the Saxons.
Chapter Sixteen: King Richard’s wandering around lost through the woods and finds a chapel. He goes in and meets FRIAR TUCK (the hermit, etc.).
Chapter Seventeen: Richard and Friar Tuck eat, drink, sing, and have a good time.
Chapter Eighteen: After John’s party. As the Saxons head home, they see a dog (Gurth’s Fangs) and think he’s a sign of bad luck. [Foreshadowing!]
Chapter Nineteen: The Saxons meet up with the Jews Isaac and Rebecca (and also unknowingly Ivanhoe, who was in their litter). They bring the Jews along, hoping to make some money off them, when De Bracy and his men, posing as outlaws, swoop in and capture them. Gurth and Wamba escape. They meet up with Locksley (Robin Hood) in the woods.
Chapter Twenty: Wamba, Gurth, and Locksley go to the hermitage, where Friar Tuck and King Richard are still partying. They tell the two what happened and head off.
Chapter Twenty-One: De Bracy and Bois-Guilbert drag their captives to Torquilstone, the castle of FRONT-DE-BOEUF. The captives all figure out what happened, but then they’re all separated from each other. Cedric pointlessly goes on and on about the history of the room where Athelstaine and he are held. Athelstaine only worries about if he’ll get fed.
Chapter Twenty-Two: Isaac of York is thrown in the dungeon. Front-de-Boeuf goes in to terrorize Isaac, extort money, and torture him, but hears a bugle call and runs off.
Chapter Twenty-Three: Lady Rowena is stuck in Front-de-Boeuf’s long dead wife’s apartment. De Bracy goes in to try to win her heart and/or force her to marry him, but she refuses it. Situation’s about to get nasty when he hears the same horn and goes running.
Chapter Twenty-Four: Rebecca is stuck in a high tower room and meets ULRICA (Ulfried). In enters Bois-Guilbert. He is about to rape her and force her to marry him (it doesn’t say it, but it’s all implied) when she stands at the window and threatens to jump. Bois-Guilbert then tells his little sob story, hears the same bugle, and leaves Rebecca behind, relieved for the moment.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Bois-Guilbert and De Bracy whine about their lousy love lives when Front-de-Boeuf shows up with a letter. It demands that everyone and everything be returned, but they don’t take it seriously. They write a letter back, telling them to bring a priest since they’ll execute Cedric and Athelstane. Wamba thinks up a plan to get in the castle.
Chapter Twenty-Six: Wamba poses as a friar to get in and switches places with Cedric. Rebecca doesn’t recognize him and asks him to come with her (so she can get him to see Ivanhoe) but Ulrica chases her off.
Chapter Twenty-Seven: A monk enters the castle and says that bandits captured Prior Aymer. Ulrica reveals her identity to Cedric and tells him her story of her life. She then gives him instructions on when to attack the hardest (when she puts a red flag up) and Cedric escapes. Front-de-Boeuf finds out that Cedric and Wamba exchanged places, and then the battle starts.
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Backtrack in time. Rebecca saves Ivanhoe’s life and starts nursing him back to health after he collapsed in Ashby. Ivanhoe starts liking Rebecca. They try to move him to a different place, and that’s when their hired guides desert and they met Cedric’s band (see Ch.19). De Bracy discovers the wounded Ivanhoe and puts him in an apartment away from the other people. He tells Ulrica to watch him, but she lets Rebecca in his room.
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Rebecca goes to get a ‘friar’ she sees (Ch. 26) but Ulrica drives her off. Ivanhoe hears the battle but can’t see it from his bed, so Rebecca stands at the window and tells him everything she sees.
Chapter Thirty: Front-de-Boeuf is mortally wounded and close to death. The attack goes on, so they leave him alone on his bed. Ulrica goes in and tells him the things he’s done (killed her family and his own father) and then tells him that she set the fuel storehouse beneath the room on fire, and the castle is burning.
Chapter Thirty-One: Long description of the battle and the fighting. Richard captures De Bracy. Rebecca discovers the castle is burning, but won’t leave because Ivanhoe can’t move. Bois-Guilbert rushes in and grabs Rebecca and carries her away; King Richard runs in and carries Ivanhoe out next. All the others, except Isaac, escape. Athelstaine sees the Templar carrying off Rebecca and thinks she’s Rowena; he tries to rescue her but gets hit in the head and appears to be dead (unfortunately for us, he’s not, but that’s for later). Ulrica goes to the top of a tower and sings an extremely long war song, and then the castle collapses, killing her and Front-de-Boeuf.
Chapter Thirty-Two: Everybody thinks Athelstaine is dead. Cedric frees Gurth. Rowena heads home and De Bracy is released. Robin Hood divides the booty taken from Torquilstone. Friar Tuck walks in, dragging Isaac along; they’d been trapped in the dungeon and the Friar had driven Isaac crazy.
Chapter Thirty-Three: They decide on the ransom of Prior Aymer and Isaac.
Chapter Thirty-Four: De Bracy forces his way into another one of Prince John’s parties and tells them what happened at Torquilstone and that he saw Richard there. John doesn’t think it’s any big deal and sends Waldemar out with some fighters.
Chapter Thirty-Five: Isaac heads toward Templestowe but has to stop at the house of NATHAN, a Jewish rabbi and doctor. Isaac tells Nathan what happened, and Nathan warns him about what he’ll find there. Introduces the Grand Master LUCAS BEAUMANIOR, who talks with CONRADE MONT-FITCHET. The Grand Master complains that the Templars are getting too worldly when Isaac runs in, trying to save his daughter. The Grand Master finds out that Rebecca is in Templestowe, kicks Isaac out, and starts making evil plans.
Chapter Thirty-Six: Introduces ALBERT MALVOISIN. The Grand Master talks to him, and he goes to Bois-Guilbert. He tells him to betray Rebecca and burn her as a sorceress as the Grand Master wants, but he refuses. Rebecca is taken to the tribunal.
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Tribunal. Bois-Guilbert is condemned for breaking the rules of the Templars, but the blame is put on Rebecca for supposedly putting a spell on him. They bring in ‘proof’ of her witchhood (evidence that really isn’t worth crap) such as medicine she gave HIGG. Rebecca tells them to bring a champion to fight for her innocence and throws down her glove.
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Rebecca gets three days for a champion to come. Higg goes out to deliver Rebecca’s message and finds Isaac and Nathan. Nathan tells Isaac to find Ivanhoe.
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Rebecca is confronted by Bois-Guilbert. He tells her his many fantasies of carrying her off and all the great things they would do, but she refuses to go anywhere with him. He then goes to Albert and tells him all those fantasies.
Chapter Forty: Gurth travels with Ivanhoe, and Ivanhoe gets a mule from a prior. Wamba and Richard travel towards the funeral feast of Athelstaine, but Waldemar’s men attack them. Robin Hood comes to the rescue with his merry men and all of the attackers except Waldemar die. Richard reveals his identity, Robin reveals his identity, and the identity of Friar Tuck is revealed.
Chapter Forty-One: Ivanhoe and Gurth meet up with the group. They talk, then go to the funeral feast of Athelstaine. Long pointless description of that mess.
Chapter Forty-Two: Richard reconciles Ivanhoe and Cedric. Athelstaine runs in, scaring everybody half to death, and tells the story about all the crap he’s been through. When he looks around after the story, he finds out that they all left.
Chapter Forty-Three: Preceptory of Templestowe, one hour before Rebecca is scheduled to be burned at the stake. Ivanhoe enters to be her champion. He starts to battle Bois-Guilbert, but right after they start the Templar falls over dead.
Chapter Forty-Four: Richard arrests the Grand Master and Albert Malvoisin. Ivanhoe and Rowena finally get married. Rebecca tells Rowena that she and her father Isaac are leaving England so she can be a healer. She gives Rowena a necklace of diamonds as a wedding present. A few wasted words, and it is finally…
THE END!
Note: all new characters are listed in BOLD PRINT.
Chapter One: Background on the time and place. Introduces GURTH and WAMBA. Long descriptions of their clothes. They moan about the Normans, the invasion, and the sad life Saxons live, while FANGS makes a big mess of the pigs.
Chapter Two: Introduces PRIOR AYMER and BRIAN DE BOIS-GUILBERT, again with excessive descriptions of their clothes. They were together in a caravan, looking for a place to stay for the night. They meet Gurth and Wamba and ask for directions, but the two intentionally give wrong directions. The Templar and the Prior get directions from IVANHOE (the Palmer) and end up at Rotherwood anyway just as the rain starts pouring.
Chapter Three: Introduces CEDRIC THE SAXON. Excessive descriptions of Rotherwood’s interior and Cedric’s clothes. Cedric sits around moaning about Wilfred (Ivanhoe) and wanting Wamba to come entertain him; then the Templar and the Prior barge in.
Chapter Four: Introduces LADY ROWENA. The Templar thinks she’s really pretty.
Chapter Five: Introduces ISAAC OF YORK. He got caught in the storm, but nobody cares because he’s Jewish. The others talk about a tournament in the Holy Land, when suddenly Ivanhoe (the Palmer, the Pilgrim) butts in and tells them what happened and who was involved, conveniently ‘forgetting’ himself. Somehow none of them recognize him. The enmity between Ivanhoe and the Templar is introduced here also.
Chapter Six: ‘The Palmer’ talks to Rowena and assures her that Ivanhoe will return. Then he helps Isaac escape to his home. While leaving, Ivanhoe whispers in Gurth’s ear, revealing his true identity. Isaac gives Ivanhoe a scroll to let him borrow a horse and a suit of armor from a friend.
Chapter Seven: Background on the pitiful conditions of life under Prince John. Descriptions of the tournament at Ashby, the sights and the people. Isaac goes there with daughter REBECCA. They’re treated badly (they always get treated badly because they’re Jews; it goes on throughout the rest of the book) by a yeoman (ROBIN HOOD), and then Prince John sees Rebecca and sees her beauty, so he tells the Saxon nobles to move over and let them sit. Introduces ATHELSTAINE here. He won’t move, so John tells DE BRACY to poke him with a lance; Cedric cuts off the tip of the lance with his short sword. Wamba knocks Isaac down and humiliates him.
Chapter Eight: Prince John wants to make Rebecca the Queen of Love and Beauty but the Prior says no, so he says the winner of the tournament will name her (De Bracy’s idea). Introduces WALDEMAR FITZURSE. Rules of the tournament and badly written images of the fighting. In enters the Disinherited Knight, our old friend Ivanhoe. He wins.
Chapter Nine: The ‘Disinherited Knight’ refuses to reveal his identity. Prince John and his friends argue over who he could be. Ivanhoe makes Rowena the Queen of Love and Beauty.
Chapter Ten: Ivanhoe sends Gurth to Isaac’s house to pay for the armor. Gurth doesn’t want to but does anyway. Long descriptions of the house. Gurth pays Isaac, but Rebecca secretly gives all the money and then some back.
Chapter Eleven: Gurth gets caught by a band of robbers. They want to steal his money but Gurth beats their leader in quarter-staff (large, thick stick) duel and they let him go.
Chapter Twelve: Descriptions of the joust. Ivanhoe gets attacked by three people at once and is rescued by the Black Knight (KING RICHARD). The Black Knight then wanders off while the Templar and Ivanhoe battle; the joust is ended prematurely and they don’t get to finish their battle. Prince John declares Ivanhoe the winner. So Rowena can crown him, Ivanhoe takes off his helmet so everybody sees him. Then he passes out and they discover that he was badly wounded.
Chapter Thirteen: A plan is made to force Rowena to marry De Bracy. Prince John gets a letter telling him that King Richard had been released from prison. The archery tournament started. A man named Locksley (Robin Hood) won by his amazing shooting skill and got a hunting horn.
Chapter Fourteen: Cedric and Athelstane go to a big party hosted by Prince John; the Normans embarrass and insult them, so Cedric drinks a toast to King Richard that crashes the party.
Chapter Fifteen: Waldemar tries to pick up the broken pieces of the party and get everybody there loyal to John again, mainly by bribing them. He sends out De Bracy to pose as an outlaw and capture the Saxons.
Chapter Sixteen: King Richard’s wandering around lost through the woods and finds a chapel. He goes in and meets FRIAR TUCK (the hermit, etc.).
Chapter Seventeen: Richard and Friar Tuck eat, drink, sing, and have a good time.
Chapter Eighteen: After John’s party. As the Saxons head home, they see a dog (Gurth’s Fangs) and think he’s a sign of bad luck. [Foreshadowing!]
Chapter Nineteen: The Saxons meet up with the Jews Isaac and Rebecca (and also unknowingly Ivanhoe, who was in their litter). They bring the Jews along, hoping to make some money off them, when De Bracy and his men, posing as outlaws, swoop in and capture them. Gurth and Wamba escape. They meet up with Locksley (Robin Hood) in the woods.
Chapter Twenty: Wamba, Gurth, and Locksley go to the hermitage, where Friar Tuck and King Richard are still partying. They tell the two what happened and head off.
Chapter Twenty-One: De Bracy and Bois-Guilbert drag their captives to Torquilstone, the castle of FRONT-DE-BOEUF. The captives all figure out what happened, but then they’re all separated from each other. Cedric pointlessly goes on and on about the history of the room where Athelstaine and he are held. Athelstaine only worries about if he’ll get fed.
Chapter Twenty-Two: Isaac of York is thrown in the dungeon. Front-de-Boeuf goes in to terrorize Isaac, extort money, and torture him, but hears a bugle call and runs off.
Chapter Twenty-Three: Lady Rowena is stuck in Front-de-Boeuf’s long dead wife’s apartment. De Bracy goes in to try to win her heart and/or force her to marry him, but she refuses it. Situation’s about to get nasty when he hears the same horn and goes running.
Chapter Twenty-Four: Rebecca is stuck in a high tower room and meets ULRICA (Ulfried). In enters Bois-Guilbert. He is about to rape her and force her to marry him (it doesn’t say it, but it’s all implied) when she stands at the window and threatens to jump. Bois-Guilbert then tells his little sob story, hears the same bugle, and leaves Rebecca behind, relieved for the moment.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Bois-Guilbert and De Bracy whine about their lousy love lives when Front-de-Boeuf shows up with a letter. It demands that everyone and everything be returned, but they don’t take it seriously. They write a letter back, telling them to bring a priest since they’ll execute Cedric and Athelstane. Wamba thinks up a plan to get in the castle.
Chapter Twenty-Six: Wamba poses as a friar to get in and switches places with Cedric. Rebecca doesn’t recognize him and asks him to come with her (so she can get him to see Ivanhoe) but Ulrica chases her off.
Chapter Twenty-Seven: A monk enters the castle and says that bandits captured Prior Aymer. Ulrica reveals her identity to Cedric and tells him her story of her life. She then gives him instructions on when to attack the hardest (when she puts a red flag up) and Cedric escapes. Front-de-Boeuf finds out that Cedric and Wamba exchanged places, and then the battle starts.
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Backtrack in time. Rebecca saves Ivanhoe’s life and starts nursing him back to health after he collapsed in Ashby. Ivanhoe starts liking Rebecca. They try to move him to a different place, and that’s when their hired guides desert and they met Cedric’s band (see Ch.19). De Bracy discovers the wounded Ivanhoe and puts him in an apartment away from the other people. He tells Ulrica to watch him, but she lets Rebecca in his room.
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Rebecca goes to get a ‘friar’ she sees (Ch. 26) but Ulrica drives her off. Ivanhoe hears the battle but can’t see it from his bed, so Rebecca stands at the window and tells him everything she sees.
Chapter Thirty: Front-de-Boeuf is mortally wounded and close to death. The attack goes on, so they leave him alone on his bed. Ulrica goes in and tells him the things he’s done (killed her family and his own father) and then tells him that she set the fuel storehouse beneath the room on fire, and the castle is burning.
Chapter Thirty-One: Long description of the battle and the fighting. Richard captures De Bracy. Rebecca discovers the castle is burning, but won’t leave because Ivanhoe can’t move. Bois-Guilbert rushes in and grabs Rebecca and carries her away; King Richard runs in and carries Ivanhoe out next. All the others, except Isaac, escape. Athelstaine sees the Templar carrying off Rebecca and thinks she’s Rowena; he tries to rescue her but gets hit in the head and appears to be dead (unfortunately for us, he’s not, but that’s for later). Ulrica goes to the top of a tower and sings an extremely long war song, and then the castle collapses, killing her and Front-de-Boeuf.
Chapter Thirty-Two: Everybody thinks Athelstaine is dead. Cedric frees Gurth. Rowena heads home and De Bracy is released. Robin Hood divides the booty taken from Torquilstone. Friar Tuck walks in, dragging Isaac along; they’d been trapped in the dungeon and the Friar had driven Isaac crazy.
Chapter Thirty-Three: They decide on the ransom of Prior Aymer and Isaac.
Chapter Thirty-Four: De Bracy forces his way into another one of Prince John’s parties and tells them what happened at Torquilstone and that he saw Richard there. John doesn’t think it’s any big deal and sends Waldemar out with some fighters.
Chapter Thirty-Five: Isaac heads toward Templestowe but has to stop at the house of NATHAN, a Jewish rabbi and doctor. Isaac tells Nathan what happened, and Nathan warns him about what he’ll find there. Introduces the Grand Master LUCAS BEAUMANIOR, who talks with CONRADE MONT-FITCHET. The Grand Master complains that the Templars are getting too worldly when Isaac runs in, trying to save his daughter. The Grand Master finds out that Rebecca is in Templestowe, kicks Isaac out, and starts making evil plans.
Chapter Thirty-Six: Introduces ALBERT MALVOISIN. The Grand Master talks to him, and he goes to Bois-Guilbert. He tells him to betray Rebecca and burn her as a sorceress as the Grand Master wants, but he refuses. Rebecca is taken to the tribunal.
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Tribunal. Bois-Guilbert is condemned for breaking the rules of the Templars, but the blame is put on Rebecca for supposedly putting a spell on him. They bring in ‘proof’ of her witchhood (evidence that really isn’t worth crap) such as medicine she gave HIGG. Rebecca tells them to bring a champion to fight for her innocence and throws down her glove.
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Rebecca gets three days for a champion to come. Higg goes out to deliver Rebecca’s message and finds Isaac and Nathan. Nathan tells Isaac to find Ivanhoe.
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Rebecca is confronted by Bois-Guilbert. He tells her his many fantasies of carrying her off and all the great things they would do, but she refuses to go anywhere with him. He then goes to Albert and tells him all those fantasies.
Chapter Forty: Gurth travels with Ivanhoe, and Ivanhoe gets a mule from a prior. Wamba and Richard travel towards the funeral feast of Athelstaine, but Waldemar’s men attack them. Robin Hood comes to the rescue with his merry men and all of the attackers except Waldemar die. Richard reveals his identity, Robin reveals his identity, and the identity of Friar Tuck is revealed.
Chapter Forty-One: Ivanhoe and Gurth meet up with the group. They talk, then go to the funeral feast of Athelstaine. Long pointless description of that mess.
Chapter Forty-Two: Richard reconciles Ivanhoe and Cedric. Athelstaine runs in, scaring everybody half to death, and tells the story about all the crap he’s been through. When he looks around after the story, he finds out that they all left.
Chapter Forty-Three: Preceptory of Templestowe, one hour before Rebecca is scheduled to be burned at the stake. Ivanhoe enters to be her champion. He starts to battle Bois-Guilbert, but right after they start the Templar falls over dead.
Chapter Forty-Four: Richard arrests the Grand Master and Albert Malvoisin. Ivanhoe and Rowena finally get married. Rebecca tells Rowena that she and her father Isaac are leaving England so she can be a healer. She gives Rowena a necklace of diamonds as a wedding present. A few wasted words, and it is finally…
THE END!
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No, no, no Ivanhoe isn't that bad. The language can be a bit difficult in parts, but I for one rather liked it. If you want DIFFICULT you should try reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The White Company I DARE anyone to get through that mess.Mayabird wrote:Have any of you ever read the book Ivanhoe? I hope not. I read it in high school, and it was awful. I hated it. Because even I could barely get through it, I realized that no one else would read it either.
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It wasn't bad as in hard. It was bad as in "I could barely stand reading it," and if a literary dork like me couldn't stand it, my semi-literate attention-span-lacking classmates who can barely get through a short story definitely wouldn't. Though it might have been too hard for them, too.
I could read it, but I hated it. Except for Rebecca. She was cool.
I could read it, but I hated it. Except for Rebecca. She was cool.
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I have to note this under a change in writing styles. As you noted with the descriptions, back then it was perfectly normal to spend paragraphs describing... Everything. Makes for very dense prose. You see the tail end of it around Tolken's time.
Howard and others like him are expections because they wrote for magazines and had an iron hard word limit. Thus the original Conan stories aren't flowing in 500 word paragraphs describing Conan's and his ladies clothes (or lack of them depending).
Howard and others like him are expections because they wrote for magazines and had an iron hard word limit. Thus the original Conan stories aren't flowing in 500 word paragraphs describing Conan's and his ladies clothes (or lack of them depending).
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If that was the writing style of the time the writing style of the time stunk big time. I bought Ivanhoe under the, quite mistaken as it turned out, assumption that it would be a good book. They made a cool movie out of it and it had all the elements of a great medieval adventure story, no?
Sorry, I'm with Mayabird 100%. That book was a royal pain to read.
I also agree about Rebecca. She was just about the only likeable character in that book. Ivanhoe should've gone with her and told that uppity snitch Rowena to take a hike.
Sorry, I'm with Mayabird 100%. That book was a royal pain to read.
I also agree about Rebecca. She was just about the only likeable character in that book. Ivanhoe should've gone with her and told that uppity snitch Rowena to take a hike.
'I wonder how far the barometer sunk.'-'All der way. Trust me on dis.'
'Go ahead. Bake my quiche'.
'Undead or alive, you're coming with me.'
'Detritus?'-'Yessir?'-'Never go to Klatch'.-'Yessir.'
'Many fine old manuscripts in that place, I believe. Without price, I'm told.'-'Yes, sir. Certainly worthless, sir.'-'Is it possible you misunderstood what I just said, Commander?'
'Can't sing, can't dance, can handle a sword a little'
'Run away, and live to run away another day'-The Rincewind principle
'Hello, inner child. I'm the inner babysitter.'
'Go ahead. Bake my quiche'.
'Undead or alive, you're coming with me.'
'Detritus?'-'Yessir?'-'Never go to Klatch'.-'Yessir.'
'Many fine old manuscripts in that place, I believe. Without price, I'm told.'-'Yes, sir. Certainly worthless, sir.'-'Is it possible you misunderstood what I just said, Commander?'
'Can't sing, can't dance, can handle a sword a little'
'Run away, and live to run away another day'-The Rincewind principle
'Hello, inner child. I'm the inner babysitter.'
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#7 Re: Amy's Guide to Ivanhoe
Both Ivanhoe and Lady Rowena are lifeless, cardboard characters, but that's not the case with every other characters in the book. I found the most intriguing thing about Ivanhoe is that everyone else is the main character, except the two mentioned above.Mayabird wrote:Have any of you ever read the book Ivanhoe? I hope not. I read it in high school, and it was awful. I hated it.
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And what'd ya know! I have to read it for a class this semester. Awesome timing Amy. I will be (like a good English major) trying to read it, but I will definately be using these notes to help.
Again, thanks.
Again, thanks.
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A Christian noble was not going to marry a Jewish doctor in a book written about the medieval period written in the early 1800s. Yes people were assholes back then. Today most people are still assholes, they just tend to be more subtle.I also agree about Rebecca. She was just about the only likeable character in that book. Ivanhoe should've gone with her and told that uppity snitch Rowena to take a hike.
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Have to wait for Guy Gavriel Kay (The Lions of Al-Rassan) for that.frigidmagi wrote:A Christian noble was not going to marry a Jewish doctor in a book written about the medieval period written in the early 1800s. Yes people were assholes back then. Today most people are still assholes, they just tend to be more subtle.I also agree about Rebecca. She was just about the only likeable character in that book. Ivanhoe should've gone with her and told that uppity snitch Rowena to take a hike.
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Always glad to help.Charon wrote:And what'd ya know! I have to read it for a class this semester. Awesome timing Amy. I will be (like a good English major) trying to read it, but I will definately be using these notes to help.
Again, thanks.
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