Mark Twain - 1601

THE CHARACTERS

At this time (1601) Queen Elizabeth was 68 years old. She speaks of having talked to "old Rabelais" in her youth. This might have been possible as Rabelais died in 1552, when the Queen was 19 years old.

Among those in the party were Shakespeare, at that time 37 years old; Ben Jonson, 27; and Sir Walter Raleigh, 49. Beaumont at the time was 17, not 16. He was admitted as a member of the Inner Temple in 1600, and his first translations, those from Ovid, were first published in 1602. Therefore, if one were holding strictly to the year date, neither by age nor by fame would Beaumont have been eligible to attend such a gathering of august personages in the year 1601; but the point is unimportant.

Content:

• INTRODUCTION
• WHO WROTE 1601?
• TWITTING THE REV. JOSEPH TWICHELL
• "SAVE ME ONE."
• DEPARTMENT OF STATE
• HUMOR AT WEST POINT
• FROM THE DEPTHS
• FIGS FOR FIG LEAVES!
• PROFESSOR SCENTS PORNOGRAPHY
• DROLL STORY
• THE FIRST PRINTING
• YESTERNIGHT
• FOOTNOTES
• THE CHARACTERS
• THE ELIZABETHAN WRITERS
• GOOD OLD ENGLISH CUSTOM
• AEOLIAN CREPITATIONS
• "YE BOKE OF YE SIEUR MICHAEL DE MONTAINE"
• "THEN SPAKE YE DAMNED WINDMILL, SIR WALTER"
• YE VIRGIN QUEENE
• "'BOCCACCIO HATH A STORY"
• OLD SR. NICHOLAS THROGMORTON
• "TO SAVE HIS DOTER'S MAIDENHEDDE"
• PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY