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HISTRIOMASTIX
1006 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 1973
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December 21, 2007
Unintentionally hilarious polemic.
March 19, 2022
Definitely part of the War of the Theatres, but is it at the start or the end? We read it on the basis that its relatively kind portrait of a classicist poet might have been an olive branch to Jonson, while amateur and amateurish writers and performers are slated.
It's a weird play, without a real central plot, more a presentation of a sequence of portraits of society in "what ifs", showing how vanity, pride, greed, war can be destructive. That hits home at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I have to say.
An oddity - useful for completists, but I can't really imagine it on a modern stage. Probably mostly by Marston.
Read as part of the REP online project reading the repertoire of the Boys' Companies.
It's a weird play, without a real central plot, more a presentation of a sequence of portraits of society in "what ifs", showing how vanity, pride, greed, war can be destructive. That hits home at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I have to say.
An oddity - useful for completists, but I can't really imagine it on a modern stage. Probably mostly by Marston.
Read as part of the REP online project reading the repertoire of the Boys' Companies.
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