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Bryher – The Player’s Boy

28 Thursday Jul 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Books, History, Stories, Theatre

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Austin Phillips, Bryher, Elizabethan theatre, Jacobean Era, James Sands, The Player's Boy, Walter Raleigh

BryherMy acquaintance with Bryher‘s work is, I must say, limited to one book – but what a book!

The Player’s Boy tells the story of an apprentice who doesn’t become an actor in the early reign of James VI and I. Bryher had both a researcher’s interest and a passionate fondness for the golden era of Elizabethan theatre, and this novel tells it decline with a kind of haunting intenseness.  Continue reading →

“Come live with me and be my love,” quoth he…

11 Thursday Jun 2015

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Cecil Day Lewis, christopher marlowe, Izaak Walton, John Donne, Walter Raleigh, William Carlos Williams

PSThe Passionate Shepherd to his Love is an utterly delightful love poem of shepherds and nymph, a charming and carefree little thing that shows us a different Kit Marlowe from the fiery author of Tamburlaine, Faustus and the Massacre at Paris… Continue reading →

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