Remember, remember

Guy Fawkes, cut down alive, was gutted, the empty bloody bag of him thrown down and butchered.  Remember, when the fires leap:  the fear was real.

In James Shapiro's The Year of Lear, he studies Shakespeare's vivid, dark, barbaric age:  and above all, 1605-1606, the year of apocalypse forestalled, the year in which the King's Man finished the first, the darker version of Lear, and wrote Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.  (Burbage played all three leads that astonishing year, as well as Vindice and Volpone.)

Terrific book.

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