• Gormenghast (/ˈɡɔːrmənɡɑːst/) is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying,...
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  • Gormenghast /ˈɡɔːmənˌɡɑːst/ is a fantasy novel by British writer Mervyn Peake, the second in his Gormenghast series. It is the story of Titus Groan, 77th...
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  • Gormenghast may refer to: Gormenghast (series), a trilogy of novels by Mervyn Peake Gormenghast (novel), second in the series Gormenghast (opera), an...
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  • Gormenghast is a four-episode television series based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It was produced...
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  • Mervyn Peake (category Gormenghast (series))
    illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy...
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  • fictional character in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. He is the son of Sourdust, the Master of Ritual of Gormenghast Castle. He is a one-legged, hunchbacked...
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  • Titus Groan (category Gormenghast (series))
    in 1946. It is the first novel in the Gormenghast series. The other books in the series are the novels Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) and the...
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  • Titus Alone (category Gormenghast (series))
    published in 1959. It is the third work in the Gormenghast trilogy. The other works are Titus Groan and Gormenghast. With the trilogy, a fourth work, the novella...
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    a few solo albums and written an opera, Gormenghast, based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy. Gormenghast premiered at the Opernhaus Wuppertal in...
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  • Steerpike (category Gormenghast (series))
    Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast. Steerpike might be called the antagonist of the Gormenghast trilogy, but in truth he is more of an...
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  • Gormenghast is an opera in three acts composed by Irmin Schmidt to an English-language libretto by Duncan Fallowell, based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast...
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    Lady Fuchsia Groan (category Gormenghast (series))
    Lady Fuchsia Groan is a fictional character in the Gormenghast series of fantasy novels by English writer Mervyn Peake. The daughter of Sepulchrave, 76th...
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    all five simultaneously within fifty minutes. In 1969, Sting read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and later bought the film rights. He named pets...
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    roles. These included the role Flay in the BBC television miniseries Gormenghast (2000) based on Mervyn Peake's novels. He also appeared as Lucas de Beaumanoir...
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  • Titus Awakes (category Gormenghast (series))
    write. It was to have been the fourth novel in the Gormenghast series, after Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. Peake's own version of Titus Awakes...
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    the sadistic Goth prince Chiron. He starred as Steerpike in the BBC's Gormenghast (2000); played a dedicated girls' football coach in Bend It Like Beckham...
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    played Clarice, one of the dim-witted twin sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast (2000), a BBC television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's trilogy. She played...
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    (1995), Jane Eyre (1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), The Avengers (1998), Gormenghast (2000), and five of the Harry Potter films in which she played Petunia...
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  • favorably compared Wicked with other "fantasy novels of ideas" such as Gormenghast and Dune. The New York Times was a notable outlier, criticizing the novel's...
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    Mervyn Peake has a Machiavellian, manipulative, and murderous villain in Gormenghast named Steerpike. The charactonym can also indicate appearance. For example...
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  • Episode 4 – (Tanya) 1999 Jason and the Argonauts – (Atalanta) 2000 Gormenghast – (BBC) 2000 Monarch of the Glen (Marie-Helene) 2001 Take Me UK television...
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    – voice Ted & Ralph Confirmed Bachelor 1999 Hunting Venus Peter 2000 Gormenghast Professor Perch The Strangerers Cadet Flynn Nine episodes 2001 Fun at...
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    and Blue Black Permanent (1992). In 2000 she played Lady Gertrude in Gormenghast, while in 2001 she was in Love in a Cold Climate with Sir Alan Bates...
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    International – Culture Section. Peake, Mervyn (2011). The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy (New ed.). London: Vintage. p. 753. ISBN 978-0-09-952854-8. Daniel...
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  • AM) licensed to San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. Keda, a character in the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake Kedah Regional Development Authority (KEDA), a...
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    Baskervilles, and Fuchsia in the 2000 BBC and WGBH Boston production of Gormenghast, a miniseries based on the first two books of the trilogy by Mervyn Peake...
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  • album, "All Cats Are Grey" and "The Drowning Man", were inspired by the Gormenghast novels of Mervyn Peake. Faith was the first album by the Cure to feature...
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  • version of Kidnapped. Fisher appeared in the 2000 BBC adaptation of Gormenghast. Fisher starred as a main character D.S. Doug Duvall in the drama Missing...
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    Parkinsonism in his later years). Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), author of the Gormenghast books, began his decline towards death which was initially attributed...
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  • featured Windsor Davies (who would also appear with Sykes in the BBC's Gormenghast in 2000), Bob Todd, Lynsey de Paul, and Gareth Hunt. In 1985, he played...
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