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- Overview
- Introducing the play
- The Play
- The Chambers version of the Play
- The author
- Dramatis Personae
- Common interpretations
- Confusion
- Versions of the Play
- Existing copies of the Play
is the dread play at the heart of the stories that form the book of the same name by Robert W. Chambers.
As first described, in "The Repairer of Reputations":
The play is generally regarded as having been published in 1895, although some claim that it was written earlier and/or based on earlier works. According to the story The 7th Day The Yellow God Rests, the 1895 printing can be recognised by the golden salamander on its cover. It probably consists of two acts (see First Act and Second Act).
Although it is sometimes thought to have been written in French, The Repairer of Reputations states that the play was translated into French, the French government seizing the translated copies that had just arrived in Paris (from where is not stated), after which there was great demand in London to read it. It should be noted that this happened in the alternate timeline of that story, rather than in the history we are used to.
Robert Chambers, in writing his book The King In Yellow, quotes only the briefest passages of the play, with characters referencing various details but shedding little light on context.
From the Repairer of Reputations:
The author is never named by Chambers. In 'The Repairer of Reputations' it is suggested that the author shot himself after writing it, although Hildred Castaigne believes that he yet lives. Castaigne himself, or another of that name, has also been given as either the author of the play or the person who completed it because it was unfinished by the...
The following Dramatis Personae are characters from the play, as elaborated from various sources.
•Aldones
•Camilla
•Cassilda
•Castellan
•Naotalba
The actual contents of the play are only hinted at by Chambers, but a common interpretation has emerged amongst some authors:
The play concerns the final days of the dynasty of a distant world, the arrival of a Stranger to their city, a masked ball and the final disastrous arrival of the King in Yellow. Various authors have given us details of the play and its background, and whilst most of them relate the same details, some seem to be inconsistent with each other. This page attempts to draw together some of the examples of text.
All versions of the story introduce Carcosa as a mysterious city where the King rules (or is perhaps in exile).
For more on the contents on the play as established by Chambers see The King In Yellow (Reconstructing The Play).
It's worth noting that only a few of the 'established' characters, Camilla, Cassilda and The Stranger, are mentioned by Chambers directly, in quoting from the play, although we can see that The King himself is also a prominent figure. Other names are vague references, to either people or places, and these details have been fleshed out by other writers. It appears that the main confusion seems to have been over the definition of who or what the name 'Yhtill' belongs to – and from here the play seems to have diverged into two separate interpretations.
'Hastur' is usually credited as the name of the city the play is set in, although August Derleth in his Cthulhu Mythos stories made it the name of a Great Old One usually credited as being the entity of which The King In Yellow is an avatar. 'Yhtill' is used, depending on the source, either as an alternative name for the central city or as the name of The Stranger (or rather it is the word for 'stranger' as used in the city of Alar). 'Alar' is generally accepted as being a city mentioned in the play, one that is at war with the central city, although on one count the name has been credited to a character.
Irritatingly enough, the divergence seems to have seen a split, into one setting usually followed by established authors, and one setting which has been carved out for the benefit of the games. As the latter continues to gain momentum as a defining element of the Carcosa Mythos, it grows increasingly important to see where the two unite, where they differ, and whether the differences demand two alternative settings or just one elusive whole.
The play The King In Yellow appears, therefore, impossible to pin down as an exact text. Is this due to inconsistencies between the various authors (both those in the real world and in its fictional counterpart)... or might there be something else at work here?
•See Theories - Are There Multiple Copies Of The Play?
•See Theories - Does The Text Of The Play Reflect The Reality Of Carcosa?
It is confirmed in-universe that the Play was translated into French (in which it would be known as Le Roi en Jaune). From what is unclear, although it may have been English. Whilst it is possible the 'quotations' given by Robert W. Chambers may have been intended to be 'from the French', i.e. appearing in English in the real book only as a translation convention, it is likely they suggest a full English translation existed within the world of Chambers' stories. Some stories imply that the Play is a meme-like threat that contrives to worm its way into the human mind and be spread, thus spreading into all languages.
In The Peace That Will Not Come, numerous late 19th/early 20th century translations are mentioned, along with a Greek 'original', namely (note that not all letters are accurately reproduced and see the Talk page for issues with translated titles):
•Le Roi en Jaune (French)
•Kralj u Žutom (printed in Zagreb)
•A Kiraly-ban Sarga (printed in Budapest)
•Król w Żółci (Prague/Warsaw)
Sources vary as to the availability of the Play within the universe of the stories. It is said to have been printed at least once, but the majority of copies were destroyed before they could be circulated. Some stories imply that it is virtually impossible to obtain a copy, whilst others imply that it remains relatively easy to obtain within the right circles, even if illegal and/or frowned upon morally. Some stories indicate that attempts are regularly made (and usually thwarted) to reprint it.
The story In Carcosa, The King has a character state that the last copy of the play in America was burnt by his grandmother at some point before 1990.
The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. [2] The British first edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1895 (316 pages).
- Robert W. Chambers, E. F. Bleiler
- 1895
Read Full Text and Annotations on The King in Yellow The Mask - I at Owl Eyes.
Nov 24, 2021 · Then I drew on the white silk robe, embroidered with the yellow sign, and placed the crown upon my head. At last I was King, King by my right in Hastur, King because I knew the mystery of the Hyades, and my mind had sounded the depths of the Lake of Hali. I was King!
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Laden with symbolism, mystery, and unreality, The King in Yellow is a classic depiction of supernatural events that push unreliable narrators into madness. Flesch-Kincaid Level: 7 Approx. Reading Time: 5 hours and 59 minutes
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