Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gloriana (by Ferdinand Bruckner) is about Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon. Robert Cecil, Philip II of Spain, Northumberland. Mountjoy and many another Elizabethan. It makes all of them out dull people...
Romantics by the score have painted dreamy pictures of Elizabethan life. For a realist to attempt it means disturbing innumerable hallowed myths-principally the vague one that Shakespeare, Marlowe and their fellows said ods bodikins and talked blank verse in the Mermaid Tavern...
...close-packed pages), it covers scenes of English provincial life, college, intrigues in literary circles, skullduggery, betrayal, seduction, rape, theft, hanging-a dismal record enlivened by the excitement of the story. Author Jones, a young professor at the University of Wales, pictures Greene as a kind of talented Elizabethan Anthony Adverse, thoughtless enough to drift into trouble and courageous and quickwitted enough...
Reason for this ghoulish hocus-pocus was that a minor Elizabethan historian of doubtful veracity once wrote that when Spenser was buried, a cluster of poets, including Shakespeare, placed poems in their own handwriting in his grave. For 20 years the Baconian Society has been pleading to have the grave examined, arguing that comparison of the handwriting of the poems would prove once & for all that it was Bacon who wrote Shakespeare...
Built in 1596, a fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture, the House is the birthplace of Katharine Rogers, mother of John Harvard. Katharine married Robert Harvard, of St. Saviour's, South wark (London), and there is good reason to believe that her most famous contemporary, William Shakespeare, was present at the wedding, for not only was he a Stratford neighbor of the Harvards, but also was a member of the South-wark parish where John was baptized...