Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contemporary books on Elizabethan literature range all the way from scholarly volumes, complete with footnotes and a dozen suggested readings for doubtful passages, to out & out romances telling tall tales of the Mermaid Tavern in phoney blank verse. Between these two extremes there are a few studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...
...death. Until Dr. John Leslie Hotson published the coroner's inquest on Marlowe twelve years ago, uncovering a 330-year-old mystery, biographers had been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible end at the age of 29 and at the height of his fame a just punishment for his atheism, wrote "See what a hooke the Lord put in the nostrils of this barking dogge!" but unfortunately did not give details. Strait-laced Victorians tended...
...first, showed greater mastery of his art. Leaving London to escape the plague, he had been recalled by the authorities two weeks before. At ten in the morning of May 30. with two government agents and a London thief, the prominent young playwright visited Dame Eleanor Bull's tavern, took a private room, ate dinner, walked in a private garden with his strange companions...
According to the inquest, which may have been a whitewash, these four conspirators stayed at Dame Bull's tavern all day. At six o'clock they ate supper in their private room. Marlowe stretched out on the bed and the others, facing him, began playing backgammon. Frizer's dagger was hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer...
...tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust Co., in Newark. Last fortnight Feigenspan thought they had received the sure winner in this category: Russell C. Speck's 25½ ouncer, caught off Monnosquan, N. J. The Trust Co. sent the tuna to a nearby tavern to be put on ice. Then, suddenly it disappeared. Sportsmanlike Mr. Feigenspan, however, announced that angler Speck would get the $100 if no smaller tuna were caught before Oct. 31. Last week the Feigenspan employe in charge of contest entries returned from his vacation, a trifle surprised...