On today’s episode, I’ll be beginning my discussion of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. First performed as a play in 1903 and published as a novel in 1905, this novel created the trope of a hero with a secret identity that would bring us characters like Batman and Zorro. If you’d like to learn how to blackmail people, how to not effectively communicate in your marriage, and the most effective disguise for getting out of Paris during the French Revolution, hit play.