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Londoners recalled a famous Elizabethan prophecy that if Gog and Magog were ever destroyed, London's City would go too. Lost was the Guildhall's greatest treasure-the 11th-Century parchment charter granted the City of London by William the Conqueror...
About Twelfth Night: Margaret Webster, Maurice Evans, and company, who produced it in New York, missed up on a wonderful opportunity to present Elizabethan music in its original setting. Some of the loveliest madrigals of the age were written to the lyrics in Twelfth Night, Come Away, Sweet Death particularly, and the entire play simply cries out for an Elizabethan vocal and instrumental score. Paul Bowles' music is excellent, but no substitute for the real thing...
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...