Editing GR
Monte Davis
modavis at bellatlantic.net
Sun Mar 9 22:32:45 CST 1997
Whatever Faith and [J.] Kirkpatrick Sale say, influences were acknowledged
in CoL49, in _Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger_:
" 'The doubtful 'Whitechapel' version (c. 1670) has 'This tryst or odious
awry, O Niccolo,' which besides bringing in a quite gracelss Alexandrine,
is difficult to make sense of syntactically, unless we accept the rather
unorthodox though persuasive argument of J.-K. Sale that the line is really
a pun on 'This Trystero _dies irae_...'"
-Monte <when you verb a French noun and your editor frowns, that's a moire>
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