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Elizabethan and Jacobean reviews

Elizabethan reviews Christopher Marlowe Introduction to Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander Ovid’s Amores Dido, Queen of Carthage Tamburlaine, Part I Tamburlaine Part II The Jew of Malta Doctor Faustus Edward the Second William Shakespeare Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1599) Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1607) Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour by […]

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by Simon on August 7, 2023 • Permalink

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Posted by Simon on August 7, 2023

https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/08/07/elizabethan-and-jacobean-reviews/

Seneca’s Plays

What follows are notes on E.F. Watling’s introduction to his translation of Seneca’s plays, published by Penguin Books in 1966, then a summary with comments of the four Seneca plays it contains: Seneca’s biography Lucius Annaeus Seneca was born in 4 BC Corduba, Spain, the second son of Annaeus Seneca the Elder. His father had […]

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by Simon on December 19, 2022 • Permalink

Posted in Ancient history, Play, Theatre

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Posted by Simon on December 19, 2022

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Tamburlaine Part I by Christopher Marlowe (1587)

‘I that am termed the scourge and wrath of God, The only fear and terror of the world…’ Full title of the first printed edition, 1590 Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shephearde, by his rare and woonderfull Conquests, became a most puissant and mightye Monarque. And (for his tyranny, and terrour in Warre) […]

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by Simon on October 19, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in English literature, Literature, Play, Theatre, War

Posted by Simon on October 19, 2020

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Selected Poems by John Dryden edited by Donald Thomas (1993)

John Dryden was the most successful poet, playwright, critic, translator and man of letters of his time, that time being roughly the late-1660s through to his death in 1700. Early life Dryden was born into a Puritan family in Northamptonshire in 1631. He was sent to the prestigious Westminster private school in 1645, the year […]

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by Simon on September 9, 2020 • Permalink

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Posted by Simon on September 9, 2020

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Epicoene, or the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson (1609)

CLERIMONT: For God’s sake, let’s effect it: it will be an excellent comedy of affliction… Epicoene is an older archaic spelling, nowadays we spell it ‘epicene’. Epicene means ‘having characteristics of both sexes or no characteristics of either sex; of indeterminate sex’. Intersex is, I think, the modern term. Cast Men Morose: A gentleman that […]

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by Simon on August 11, 2023 • Permalink

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Posted by Simon on August 11, 2023

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Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1606)

“These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, Or lose myself in dotage…” (Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1, scene 2) Plot summary Act 1 The assassination of Julius Caesar in March 44 BC led to a period of chaos with warlords commanding legions around the Roman world, until a deal was brokered the three […]

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by Simon on August 8, 2022 • Permalink

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Posted by Simon on August 8, 2022

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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1599)

Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, was first produced, in all probability, in 1599. The plot is based entirely on three of Plutarch’s biographies of eminent Romans, which Shakespeare found in Sir Thomas North’s translations into English of The Lives of the Most Noble Greeks and Romans, first published in 1579. The three lives he drew from […]

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by Simon on August 5, 2022 • Permalink

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Posted by Simon on August 5, 2022

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Zero History by William Gibson (2010)

Zero History is a 400-page novel about has-been rock stars and pretentious advertising executives in search of a reclusive designer of ‘really cool’ jeans and jackets. It is mind-bogglingly shallow, pretentious and boring. Zero History is the third novel in William Gibson’s so-called ‘Blue Ant trilogy’, itself the third of Gibson’s three trilogies of novels. […]

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by Simon on April 23, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Simon on April 23, 2021

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Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett (1983)

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Worstward Ho is a short piece of prose published by Samuel Beckett towards the end of his life. The title is a parody of the adventure novel Westward Ho! by Victorian novelist, Charles Kingsley, which itself is a reference to the Elizabethan play Westward Ho! by Thomas Dekker and […]

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by Simon on February 15, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Simon on February 15, 2021

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Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938)

‘Unless you want me to call a policewoman,’ said Murphy, ‘cease your clumsy genustuprations.’ (Murphy page 56) This is Beckett’s first published novel. I expected it to be an improvement on his first published book, the collection of linked short stories, More Pricks Than Kicks, but the essential feel, the worldview and style are very much […]

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Elizabethan and Jacobean reviews

Seneca’s Plays

Tamburlaine Part I by Christopher Marlowe (1587)

Selected Poems by John Dryden edited by Donald Thomas (1993)

Epicoene, or the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson (1609)

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1606)

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1599)

Zero History by William Gibson (2010)

Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett (1983)

Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938)

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