For various and sundry reasons (one of which happens to be a still-ongoing series of trials and tribulations with my spouse's and my vehicles, plus [PERSONAL CRAP], still more [PERSONAL CRAP], a bout of some non-specific gastrointestinal complaint, and a comedy of errors of an audit at work that dragged on two weeks longer than it should have), I' ( Read more... )

From Saturday, 22 September 2012 to Thursday, 8 November 2012, I read Frances Yates' The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (NY: Routledge Classics [Routledge & Kegan Paul, London & NY], 1979, 2001; ISBN: 0-415-25409-4; 263 pps.).

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This last week (3 April -- 7 April, 2006), BBC Radio 4's Book At Bedtime presented an adaptation of yet another fictionalized treatment of Christopher Marlowe, "The Muse's Darling:" Louise Welsh's Tamburlaine Must Die (2004), which is a short (160 pps.), noir-ish take on the events leading to "Kit's" murder at the age of 29 in a seedy London tavern ( Read more... )