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From: wood jim jim33wood at yahoo.com


Did anyone mention that Eliot's dramas are greek?


His affinities, even model, may be more topical..

a cursory scan of his bibliography suggests that his
"analytical" output is made up in large part of his
musings on the topic of "revenge tragedies" and their authors.

and then there is this from W.A.S.T.E.land:

"These fragments I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe."

lns. 431-32

The following footnote is provided in Norton's
Anthology of Poetry

"'V. Kyd's Spanish Tragedy' [Eliot note]. The subtitle
of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy (1594) is Hieronymo's Mad Againe.
Hieronymo, driven mad by his son's death, 'fits' the part
in a court masque so that in the course of it he kills his son's
murderers before himself committing suicide." 


love,
cfa

 




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