Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anglo-American. As a symbol of Anglo-American unity Winston Churchill is a paradox because his Americanism is more British than American-more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears; he grew to maturity with a stomach for strong food and drink, with a lust for adventure, with a tongue and pen that shaped the English language into the virile patterns of a Donne, a Marlowe or a Shakespeare. His father he worshiped, but never got close to; his mother...
...Only the Elizabethan songs (of which a few are included) approach that, and only one named poet surpasses it. That is William Blake, in his superb Cradle Song, which in this volume is misquoted, and which is neither to, for, from, with, by or about a mother. It is about a baby, and it is written from the point of view of a poet, or possibly a father...
Featuring the Thespian artistry of Roger B. Merriman '96, professor of History, in a leading comic role, Eliot House will present Thomas Middleton's Elizabethan comedy "A Trick to Catch the Old One," on Wednesday night, December 18, at 8 o'clock in the House Dining Room...
...judging by Monday night's sprinkled and hesitant laughter. In fact, the whole attitude of the audience today seems far too polite for a playwright used to the bantering of the "pit." The Elizabethan wits must have lambasted Malvolio as enthusiastically as the later 19th Century hissed the villain. His first appearance bedecked with yellow garters probably unloosed a storm of mirth and ridicule. A little more of this boisterousness would be a welcome addition...
Latest edition of the Elizabethan epics, complete with duel, is "The Sea Hawk," which is a long-winded account of Geoffrey Thorpe, a nautical counterpart of Jesse James, who drained the Spanish Main of every ingot of gold t'other side of Lisbon. He gets his fingers burned in Panama, re-crosses the Atlantic as a galley-slave, beats up on the Spanish crew, sails the galleon to England and single-handed saves the British Empire from the Spanish Armada. All of which goes to show that England cannot be invaded,--we-hope-we-hope-we-hope...