Captain from Castile | Literary Precedents
The most obvious literary precedent for Shellabarger's historical novels, as more than one reviewer pointed out, was the swashbuckling fiction of Alexander Dumas pere (1802-1870), romances such as The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), The Three Musketeers (1844), and The Black Tulip (1850). Like Dumas, Shellabarger is not concerned with the niceties of the art of fiction but with color and romance to the point of excessive melodrama. Like Dumas, Shellabarger does not concern himself with psychological perceptions. Unlike Dumas, however, Shellabarger is much more...
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