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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: Poem/Play (was Re: Pinter on Blair et al.)
>> Is this Hoffman thingy supposed to be in verse, for pete's sake?
>
> "Supposed" is the operative word. The term blank verse +doesn't+
> immediately spring to mind.
>
>> Where *do* you dig these things up?
>>
>> joanna
>
> My attention was drawn to it as an undergraduate at Glasgow University in
> the sixties. Even as OTT Jacobean Revenge Tragedy goes, Chettle's Hoffman
> goes even further.
>
> I wonder how it would stage? One is tempted ...
>
> R.
Masochist!
j
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