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Dec 01 2008
Each year, as the holiday season comes around and the news stories start to dry
up, we look back into history for a snapshot of the news in centuries past, starting in 1608 ....
While the early settlers at Jamestown struggled for survival, London was a hive
of dramatic endeavor:
Ben Jonson's The Masque of Beauty
and The Hue and Cry After Cupid were both published and performed for the
first time in 1608. Thomas Heywood published The Rape of Lucrece; Thomas
Middleton published The Family of Love, A Mad World, My Masters
and A Trick to Catch the Old One; and William Shakespeare
published King Lear - to name but a few.
Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, Thomas Dekker, was also in fine voice,
publishing two tracts: The Dead Term and The Bellman of London;
and considering that he claimed credit for 240 plays during his 60-year lifetime, it
seems likely that he turned out a few plays as well.
Although not notable for some years after his birth, prose writer and poet
John Milton, best known for Paradise Lost, was
born at the close of the year in December 1608.
Coming Soon: 1708, 1808 & 1908.
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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