1601: And, Is Shakespeare Dead?, المجلد 27Oxford University Press, 1996 - 178 من الصفحات 1601, or Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors is a hilarious ribald send-up of Elizabethan England in which Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and other luminaries of the period are pictured sitting about the fireplace amusing one another with risqué tales. During a visit to West Point in 1881, Twain met Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood, adjutant to the commanding general. As Leslie Fiedler notes in his afterword, "he discovered not only that Wood, like him, was a freethinker, but that he had at his disposal a well-equipped printing plant." He asked Wood to publish the piece, and it is the West Point edition--complete with the Old English-style type Wood selected--that is printed here. If "in 1601 Twain both parodied and paid homage to Shakespeare's liberating bawdry," Erica Jong observes in her introduction, in "Is Shakespeare Dead? he tried to come to terms with his conflicting responses to Shakespeare as mentor and muse." Jong suggests that Twain's real concern in this book may well be his own "place in literary history." |
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... surmise and without trust- worthy evidence that Shallow is Sir Thomas . The next addition to the young Shake- speare's Stratford history comes easy . The historian builds it out of the sur- mised deer - stealing , and the surmised trial ...
... surmise and without trust- worthy evidence that Shallow is Sir Thomas . The next addition to the young Shake- speare's Stratford history comes easy . The historian builds it out of the sur- mised deer - stealing , and the surmised trial ...
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... surmise that he did not keep a library . It is surmised by the biographers that the young Shakespeare got his vast knowledge of the law and his familiar and accurate acquaintance with the man- ners and customs and shop - talk of law ...
... surmise that he did not keep a library . It is surmised by the biographers that the young Shakespeare got his vast knowledge of the law and his familiar and accurate acquaintance with the man- ners and customs and shop - talk of law ...
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... surmised that the young Shakespeare accumulated his law - treas- ures in the first years of his sojourn in London ... surmise ; there is no evidence that he ever did either of those things . They are merely a couple of chunks of ...
... surmised that the young Shakespeare accumulated his law - treas- ures in the first years of his sojourn in London ... surmise ; there is no evidence that he ever did either of those things . They are merely a couple of chunks of ...
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