Count Hannibal by F. Norreys Connell and Oscar Asche. Photograph of actor Oscar Asche with the same text as the previous image. Count Hannibal is a very macho character, who offers the heroine the choice of marrying him or be betrayed as a Protestant. She is engaged to a younger, weaker man, but learns to prefer the Count. ?The Times? commented that Nietzsche would have approved of the plot.