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...high treason to refuse the oath that accepted the King as supreme head of the Church of England, to go abroad and return as an ordained Catholic priest, or even to harbor a priest. Since no Catholic priest could be ordained in England, a steady flow of young Englishmen left the country for The Netherlands. They returned as priests in disguise to visit among known Catholic homes called "Mass houses." where they secretly met with the faithful and celebrated Mass. Eventually, about two-thirds of these undercover priests were caught and executed...
...both defied and deferred to. Hamlet, for instance, was a tragedy about a man whose mother turns into his aunt; Greene's book is a funny novel about a man whose aunt turns into his mother. It is notorious that Americans have mothers rather than fathers, while literary Englishmen tend to have aunts. Greene's comedy is based on this English anthropological pattern -one unknown to less eccentric races...
...Grand Tour by Christopher Hibbert. 256 pages. Putnam. $12.95. "If a young man is wild and must run after women and bad company," Dr. Johnson once observed, "it is better he should do so abroad." But whether in search of pleasure, polish, or the splendors of Palladian architecture, young Englishmen, usually with tutors, infested Europe for three centuries. With well-chosen pictures and pungent quotations from travelers (including Diarist John Evelyn, Tobias Smollett and Edward Gibbon), this book gives a remarkably funny and extremely revealing country-by-coun-try account of Albion's impact upon the Continent-and incontinent...
...whose accents, mannerisms and character are constantly ridiculed, and whose energy is one of the play's driving comic forces. He had a habit, selon Terry Hands, the director, of kissing those he presumed to be his friends on both checks. The trouble was that all his friends were Englishmen, or normal height, and he was about 4'10". Hence to reach each check he had to hop, and his helloes and good-byes became increasingly more hilarious sight gags...
John Hillaby is one of those slightly cracked Englishmen who insist on doing something remarkable largely in order to write a delightful book about how awful it was. At the age of 50, and more out of curiosity than a sense of competition ("For me the question was not whether it could be done, but whether I could do it"), he undertook a 1,100-mile hike from one end of Britain to the other. In the course of it, he managed to be fogbound on Dartmoor, musclebound in Bristol and sodden in Somerset. He was rained upon almost everywhere...