Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is that of a great young Shaksperian actor who regains his self-respect by acting like a beast in a household not used to people who speak Elizabethan words over a kippered herring. Satirizing himself with grace, Mr. Howard tries hard to make a crazy Ophelia fall out of love with him, so that she will fall back in love with her fiance. At the same time Mr. Howard is pressed to keep the love of "Joyce," while Eric Blore packs and repacks bags, makes bird noises, and sticks his tongue out at a little girl who knows every...
...many writers owe as much to a house as does Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West, wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant no more to her than Scotland Yard men did to Edgar Wallace. To this background, tall, brunette Author Sackville-West, now 45, owes the subject matter for The Edwardians, a novel which (in the U. S. at least) made her literary reputation, also her semi-legendary fame as heroine of Virginia...
Contemporary books on Elizabethan literature range all the way from scholarly volumes, complete with footnotes and a dozen suggested readings for doubtful passages, to out & out romances telling tall tales of the Mermaid Tavern in phoney blank verse. Between these two extremes there are a few studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...
...Walsingham, and Sir Francis Walsingham was chief of Elizabeth's highly-developed secret service, there was a theory that Marlowe had been a confidential government agent, was killed because he knew too much. If this theory could be proved it would drastically revise contemporary versions of Elizabethan literary life, suggesting that poets were more deeply involved with politics than is now known...
Goodwill. At the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building one day last week eleven young Britishers launched into a hymn and an Elizabethan madrigal. The English Boy Choristers were about to go on a six-month "Goodwill Tour" of the U. S., their expenses of some $25,000 paid by the Church of England. Aged from 11 to 13, the boys were chosen from 125 applicants, trained by Carlton Borrow in the London Choir School...