The Royal Nonesuch
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"Royal Nonesuch" is a song from the 1974 musical film, Huckleberry Finn based on the book by Mark Twain. Like the song Royalty!, this song is also sung by Harvey Korman as "The King" (of France) and David Wayne as The Duke (of Bilgwater). Performing this song is the conartists' attempt to convince the town that they are travelling actors in possession of Shakespeare's lost masterpiece, The Royal Nonesuch. The conartists sell tickets to the unsuspecting town's people and exit, back stage with the all their money, without ever having given them a show, although, in the book, the dauphin runs around naked with only body paint on, and then convinces the people who watched this to pretend it was great to keep their pride after being tricked into seeing this. This musical number is one of the highlights of the film. The song was written by the Sherman Brothers.
[edit] Literary Sources
- Sherman, Robert B. Walt's Time: from before to beyond. Pages: 178-181, Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.
