Aristocratic involvement in the development of towns and cities in nineteenth-entury Britain has long been recognised, but much less attention has been paid to the character of the patronal relationships which existed between aristocratic urban landlords and their tenantry.
But given the funny hats and juvenile hijinx, it's hard to buy the play's more serious intentions.
The tarkhan, leader of the Khazar army, meets Amram, Zelikman and a green-eyed young person who claims to be Alp, the brother of Filaq.
Right across western Canada, the house of commons is the biffey. Now that should tell you something about the way westerners feel about the goings-on in Ottawa.