Empty Theatre: or The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...


 Contents
 
 Title Page
 Copyright Notice
 Dedication
 Epigraphs
 Prologue: An Omen
 In Tribute
 In Which Devotion Is Born
 A Matter of Taste
 An Interruption, with Insight into Matters of Legacy
 Rights and Privileges
 On the Origin of Discontent
 A Survey of the Kingdom’s Holdings
 Freedom
 The Collection of Beautiful Heads
 Why Franzl Always Wears His Uniform
 The Challenge of Empathy
 Yearning Love’s Blessed Glow
 Husbandry
 A Swan’s Song
 The Most Beautiful Woman in Europe
 Left to His Own Devices
 Mother Knows Best
 Mistakes and Resentments
 He Said, He Said
 Hours and Days—Eternal Biding
 The Polish Disease
 An Introduction
 Ahem.
 Audience
 In Absentia
 Seeing and Being Seen
 “The Urning, too, is a person.”
 Too Little, Too Late
 Two Princes
 Common Courtesy Dictates
 Priorities
 An Exchange of Gifts
 Threats
 Charge the Palace
 Cross Your Heart, Hope to Die
 If Only
 Peer Pressure
 In Mutual Pursuit
 A Personal Battle
 And in Exchange
 “One cannot prevent people from thinking 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 A Note About the Author
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 The Sehnsucht motif, a lonely 
 
 Prologue: An Omen