 Ruy Blas wins the Queen's heart by various daring deeds, including bullfighting.He is proclaimed King, and Don Caesar is appointed to the post of Lord Chamberlain vacated by the disgraced Salluste.The critics generally viewed the libretto as a departure from the old traditions of burlesque, because its resemblance to the original work was tangential, and because Hugo's "Ruy Blas" was not well enough known in England to be a fruitful subject for parody.