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قراءة كتاب Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess
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Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess
Shakespeare's
Christmas Gift To
Queen Bess
In the year 1596
By
Anna Benneson McMahan
Chicago
A.C. McClurg & Co.
MCMVII
Published October 12, 1907
The Lakeside Press
R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO
822.33 HN8 1907
McMahan, Anna (Benneson)
Shakespeare's Christmas gift
To my sister Lina
in memory of
the Christmases of our childhood.
"All, though feigned, is true."
CONTENTS
11
I At the Mermaid
33
II At the Queen's Palace
65
III A Christmas Carol of the Olden Time
ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece
Queen Elizabeth going to Whitehall through London Streets
13
At the Mermaid
14
The River Avon at Stratford
16
Birthplace of Mary Arden, Mother of Shakespeare
18
Warwickshire House of the Tudor Period
20
Old Graves in Trinity Churchyard, Stratford
24
Old Warwickshire Cottages
26
A Group of Morris Dancers
30
Garden View of Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford
35
Queen Elizabeth going to Whitehall by the Thames
36
Portrait of the Earl of Essex
40
Portrait of the Earl of Southampton
44
Queen Elizabeth listening to the Play
46
"Observance to a morn of May"
50
Woods near Stratford
54
Earl of Leicester receiving Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth
58
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth in her Later Years
62
A Dance of the Sixteenth Century
I.
At the Mermaid.
Thus Raleigh, thus immortal Sidney shone
(Illustrious names!) in great Eliza's days.
--Thos. Edwardes.
The numberless diamond-shaped window panes of the Mermaid Tavern are twinkling like so many stars in the chill December air of London. It is the last meeting of the Mermaid Club for the year 1596, and not a member is absent. As they drop in by twos and threes and gather in groups about the room, it is plain that expectation is on tip-toe. They call each other by their Christian names and pledge healths. Some are young, handsome, fastidious in person and dress; others are bohemian in costume, speech, and action; all wear knee breeches, and nearly all have pointed beards. He of the harsh fighting face, of the fine eye and coarse lip and the shaggy hair, whom they call Ben, although one of the youngest is yet plainly one of the leaders both for wit and for wisdom.
The River Avon at Stratford
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows."
That