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Something of that feeling carries over into this English biography of Thomas a Becket, archbishop, martyr, and definitely a man who asked for it. Becket was the first famous victim in a struggle between church and state that culminated, four centuries later, in Henry VIII's breach with Rome. But historians are divided on Becket's role. To many he was a worldly opportunist who, somewhere along the way, underwent a remarkable spiritual conversion. Others saw him as a martyr only to ambition, who lost out in a struggle for power with his King. Britain's Alfred...
...well have considered it added to the poignancy of the tragedy that Macduff should have drabber plumage. He may quite easily have muddled his ornithological facts. However he leaves no doubt in our mind that Macduff is a hen and not a rooster, for in the last scene (V, viii) Macbeth, a man who seldom minced words, says to Macduff the immortal words...
Unfortunately for the case of Marlowe-as-Shakespeare, Hoffman fails to see that all four men at this strange meeting had been spies at some time. He also omits any mention of one of the keystones of any anti-Shakespeare theory, the unfinished play Henry VIII. For, accepting Hoffman's thesis for a moment, would it not have been impossible for Shakespeare to write anything at all after the "true" author, Marlowe, had really died...
Over the Border. Palace lawyers, drawing on the useful precedent in the abdication of Margaret's uncle, Edward VIII, have worked it out that if she renounced her rights of succession to the throne (she is third, after Prince Charles and Princess Anne). Parliament could have no further grounds for objecting to the marriage, since she would then be acting as a private person. They have recommended that if Margaret plans to go through with it, the Queen should send a message to Parliament-after Parliament meets again in October-apprising Lords and Commons of her sister...
...father and persuaded mother Lucrezia and brother Giacomo to cooperate. Big, powerful Olimpio agreed to do the killing for his mistress and a messy job it was. The family explanation that Cenci had fallen to his death through a rickety balcony was too easily disproved, and even Pope Clement VIII refused to temper justice with mercy. Beatrice, Lucrezia and Giacomo all confessed, though modern justice might question the worth of confessions extracted by torture on the rack...