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1601 - Conversation In The Time Of The Tudors
Mark Twain
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“1601,” wrote Mark Twain, “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 others … If there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it.” 1601 depicts a highfalutin and earthy discussion between the Queen and her court about farting and a variety of sexual peccadilloes, narrated disapprovingly and sanctimoniously by the Queen’s Cup-Bearer, an eyewitness at “the Social Fireside.”
“1601,” wrote Mark Twain, “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 others … If there is a decent word findable in it, it is because I overlooked it.” 1601 depicts a highfalutin and earthy discussion between the Queen and her court about farting and a variety of sexual peccadilloes, narrated disapprovingly and sanctimoniously by the Queen’s Cup-Bearer, an eyewitness at “the Social Fireside.”
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"The only editing I did was as to the spelling and a few old English words introduced. The spelling, if I remember correctly, is mine, but the text is exactly as written by Mark. I wrote asking his view of making the spelling of the period and he was enthusiastic—telling me to do whatever I thought best and he was greatly pleased with the result."
Thus was printed in a de luxe edition of fifty copies the most curious masterpiece of American humor, at one of America's most dignified institutions, the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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Community Reviews
This had no right to be this funny!!
The commentary is actually more interesting than this Twain story
Literary critic Edward Wagenknecht called
1601
"the most famous piece of pornography in American literature."
Just to be clear, it's not really pornography, at least not by modern standards. Rather, it's a short story featuring Que
Short Note: Debauchery in its finest attire does not seem to eclipse the illuminous white moon of the ‘nonpareil’ British buttocks in the Elizabethan court. Mark Twain catapults his wit at themes of politics and sex (secret escapades); his sovereign mind reigns over the minions as he wields his dext
So hilarious! The queen and her court fart and discuss farting, masterbation and oral sex.
Bottom Line First:: I laughed-Out loud and
In public.
NOT suitable for pre-adolescent readers.
At 40 pages, barely ten written by Mark Twain, 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors, is barely a pamphlet. The Introduction is perhaps a page or two too long but contai
I thought it was silly.