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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

What I Read in October 2025 – What a simple daily pleasure.

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October was so long ago.  It is almost December.  Why do I write these. MARLOWE AND SO ON The Famous Victories of Henry V (1580s?), ???...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Arden of Faversham, an early true-crime murder farce - Oaths are words, and words is wind, / And wind is mutable.

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Arden of Faversham (c. 1591, pub. 1592) is a true-crime play, a dramatization of a famous forty-year-old murder case.  An adulterous wife, ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Marlowe's hilarious farce The Jew of Malta - How sweet the bells ring now the nuns are dead

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A conceptual innovator himself, Christopher Marlowe responded to other innovations.  In The Jew of Malta (1589, maybe), he wrote, following...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

This may all be a fantasy - Stephen Greenblatt's new biography of Chrsitopher Marlowe

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Potted bio of Christopher Marlowe: Son of a semi-literate Canterbury cobbler.  He impressed someone and became a scholarship student first a...
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Monday, November 10, 2025

More Henry VI - I am myself alone

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  More rambling around Henry VI , Parts 2 and 3, Shakespeare’s first big playwriting project. 3.   As easily as I accept that large parts ...
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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Henry VI, Parts 2 and 3 - Shakespeare begins - Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile

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Thinking about the Elizabethan history plays sent me back to Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays, a substantial step forward – I will go ahead and...
Friday, November 7, 2025

History before Shakespeare - The Famous Victories of Henry V - he hath taken the great raze of ginger that Bouncing Bess with the jolly buttocks should have had

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The establishment in the 1570s of permanent theaters just outside of the walls of London led to a massive increase in the demand for new pla...
Friday, October 31, 2025

The Spanish Tragedy and Ur-Hamlet - we do as all tragedians do

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I gotta get this train back on the tracks.  Let’s see.  I’ll write this bit about The Spanish Tragedy , then something about the Henry V an...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

The Spanish Tragedy - Confused and filled with murder and misdeeds!

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Poor Hieronimo.  His son Horatio, a war hero and lover of the daughter of a duke, is murdered by the woman’s Machiavellian brother as part o...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

milk-white harts, fiery dragons, the ugly monster Death - some more Tamburlaine

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The first character we see in Tamburlaine the Great is the king of Persia, but he lacks “a great and thundering speech,” so he is soon crush...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays - Threatening the world with high astounding terms

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In Christopher Marlowe’s two Tamburlaine the Great plays (performed c. 1587, published 1590) the great Central Asian conqueror Tamburlaine ...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Where I Walked in September 2025, and with Whom – The great affair is to move

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I walked about a third of the Chemin de Stevenson in southern France, accompanied by eight other intrepid Mainers and three jolly donkeys.  ...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

What I Read in September 2025 – A hand that taught what might be said in rhyme

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My writing on Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great plays has been hampered by an apparent post-France short circuit in my ability to...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage - for I love thee not, – And yet I hate thee not.

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Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe, a romantic comedy* based on Book IV of The Aeneid , is Marlowe’s first play, or his last, o...
Monday, September 22, 2025

A note on Elizabethan authorship and Stephen Greenblatt's new biography of Christopher Marlowe, which I have not read

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Stephen Grennblatt’s biography of Christopher Marlowe, Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Christopher Marlowe , was j...
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