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Reading for the 6th time
Redsteve said:
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Excellent resource for Elizabethan-era reenactors/renaissance festival actors. This book covers a tremendous amount of ground in a fairly slim volume (for more detailed research, each section refers to generally available source material).
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Reading for the 3rd time
read in March 2006
Redsteve said:
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Fascinating and well-researched book on the death of Christopher Marlowe in 1593. The author deals not only with the physical and legal details (which, to be honest, are fairly minimal at this point) but with the probable reasons for his murder and t
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“...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.”
― Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
― Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
“Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.”
― Mary Queen of Scots
― Mary Queen of Scots
“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.”
― Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethan Age
― Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethan Age
“Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as tall as the average human, and who sweated slowly but continuously, like and aged cheese.”
― Distrust That Particular Flavor
― Distrust That Particular Flavor
“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”
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