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Tales of derring-do for whole family: Fantasy and romance in 'Princess' and 'Empire'.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20010309
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Historical romance evokes the time long, long ago when things were ever so much more exciting, what with highwaymen roaming the roads of England and Robin and his Merry Men inhabiting the forests of Sherwood.

OK, those were two different eras, but both of them are represented this week in family films designed to swash the very bucklers of the imagination. "Lorna Doone," (A&E, March 11, 8-11 p.m.) is a prize for all those women raised on the Victorian romance by R.D. Blackmore, a saga of 17th -century Exmoor. The other, a fantasy based on a legend - "Princess of ...

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