Word: pepyses
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Lying upriver about 96 km (60 miles) from the North Sea, London has through history been swamped by the rampages of the Thames. During a flood in 1236, reports one chronicle, "in the great palace of Westminster men did row with wherries [small skiffs] in the midst of the hall...
Scholars know Simon Forman as the man who attended-and made notes on -four of Shakespeare's plays performed during the dramatist's lifetime. Historian A.L. Rowse, 72, knows Forman as something more: an extravagant conflation of Horatio Alger and Doctor Faustus whose claim to fame lies buried...
Pepys kicked his cook and sold a black servant into slavery to finance his already ample stores of chocolate and sherry. Once, while in bed, he blacked an eye of the wife he married when she was 15. More regularly, he pulled her nose and terrorized her about kitchen expenses...
It is as if, at this late stage in the Pepys-watching game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious...
Gold Buttons. "Simplicity" and "innocence" were Pepys' dominant qualities, counters Ollard, the arch defender, while allying himself to another camp of Pepys interpreters, the 20th century aesthetes. For them, the true Pepys was a sort of underground artist, living in the silence, exile and cunning of his diary. Certainly...