Is this Hoffman thingy supposed to be in verse, for pete's sake?
Where *do* you dig these things up?
joanna
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: Poem/Play (was Re: Pinter on Blair et al.)
> From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Why Google when we can Rodent?
>>
>>> Greene later apologised (or someone apologised for him).
>>> Don't remember the details off-hand but I'm sure it's googleable.
>>>
>>> R.
>
> You mean why keep a dog and bark yourself?
>
> There's apparently an entire website devoted to this:
>
>
> http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/william-shakespeare-upstart-crow.htm
>
> Cool!! Learn something new every day.
>
> A Newly-Enlightened Thingumyjig
>
> (Henry Chettle, see bottom of URL, who issued the apology, is the author
> of
> an [unintentionally] hysterically funny play called _The Tragedy of
> Hoffman_. It begins:
>
>
> The Tragedy of Hoffman.
>
> Enter Hoffman. I. i
>
> Hoffman.
>
> Hence Clouds of melancholy
> Ile be no longer subiect to your schismes,
> But thou deare soule, whose nerues and artires
> In dead resoundings summon vp reuenge,
> And thou shalt hate, be but appeas'd sweete hearse,
> The dead remembrance of my liuing father, strikes ope a curtaine
> And with a hart as aire, swift as thought where appeares a body.
> I'le execute iustly in such a cause. 10
>
> Where truth leadeth, what coward would not fight?
> Ill acts moue some, but myne's a cause that's right.
>
> thunder and lightning.
>
> See the powers of heauen in apparitions,
> And frightfull aspects as insenced,
> That I thus tardy am to doe an act
> Which iustice and a fathers death excites;
> Like threatening methors antedates destruction. thunder
> Againe I come, I come, I come.
> Bee silent thou effigies of faire virtue 20
> That like a goodly syen wear't pluckt vp
> By murderous, winds, infectious blasts and gusts ...
>
> Dunno if there's a FOE webcopy, but it is included in the Questia texts.
> The *really* funny bit is at the end when the villain, about to gleefully
> chop-off Hoffman's head, accidentally brains himself with the
> executioner's
> axe. But Questia is a pig to use for full-length texts
>
> A Thoroughly Helpful Rodehog
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