1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
By Mark Twain
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Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an hysterically funny little story by Mark Twain. Queen Elizabeth I is having some people over and all of a sudden there is a great noisy and smelly fart in the room. The Queen goes around the room asking who did it and finally finds the culprit who apologizes that it is so puny. At one point where no one has admitted the deed the Queen exclaims, "Hath it come that a fart shall far itself ?. There is also some sexual double entendre for a few more laughs. I still laugh out loud every time I read it.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Have you been searching for a courtly, Elizabethan dialog on farts and sex with a really broad dirty joke thrown in for good measure? Then this is the booklet you've been looking for!Otherwise... well at least it's short.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The introductory essay in this book is far more interesting than the story it is about.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The story itself, is entertaining. Lots of words on farts and farting. Humorous, but very brief.I ordered this on Amazon, and was very disappointed. My copy was out of order! After page 24, the page order jumps all over the place, often in a backwards order! Shoddy work.The first 27 pages of this book are background! And the last bit is about the work itself. So, there is approximately 7 pages to the tale. Do yourself a favor - find it on the internet and save your money.
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1601 - Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
1601
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Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors
Mark Twain
JOVIAN PRESS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE FIRST PRINTING Verbatim Reprint
FOOTNOTES To Frivolity
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
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BORN IRREVERENT,
SCRAWLED MARK TWAIN on a scratch pad, —like all other people I have ever known or heard of—I am hoping to remain so while there are any reverent irreverences left to make fun of.
—[Holograph manuscript of Samuel L. Clemens, in the collection of the F. J. Meine]
Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his richest expression of sovereign contempt for overstuffed language, genteel literature, and conventional idiocies. Later, when a magazine editor apostrophized, O that we had a Rabelais!
Mark impishly and anonymously—submitted 1601; and that same editor, a praiser of Rabelais, scathingly abused it and the sender. In this episode, as in many others, Mark Twain, the bad boy
of American literature, revealed his huge delight in blasting the shams of contemporary hypocrisy. Too, there was always the spirit of Tom Sawyer deviltry in Mark’s make-up that prompted him, as he himself boasted, to see how much holy indignation he could stir up in the world.
WHO WROTE 1601?
The correct and complete title of 1601, as first issued, was: [Date, 1601.] ‘Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors.’ For many years after its anonymous first issue in 1880, its authorship was variously conjectured and widely disputed. In Boston, William T. Ball, one of the leading theatrical critics during the late 90’s, asserted that it was originally written by an English actor (name not divulged) who gave it to him. Ball’s original, it was said, looked like a newspaper strip in the way it was printed, and may indeed have been a proof pulled in some newspaper office. In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80’s in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain.
Many people,
said Reedy, thought the thing was done by Field and attributed, as a joke, to Mark Twain. Field had a perfect genius for that sort of thing, as many extant specimens attest, and for that sort of practical joke; but to my thinking the humor of the piece is too mellow—not hard and bright and bitter—to be Eugene Field’s.
Reedy’s opinion hits off the fundamental difference between these two great humorists; one half suspects that Reedy was thinking of Field’s French Crisis.
But Twain first claimed his bantling from the fog of anonymity in 1906, in a letter addressed to Mr. Charles Orr, librarian of Case Library, Cleveland. Said Clemens, in the course of his letter, dated July 30, 1906, from Dublin, New Hampshire:
"The title of the piece is 1601. The piece is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth’s closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of Bilgewater, and one or two