Elizabethan Bestiary

An Elizabethan Bestiary - Retold, by Jeffery Beam, illustrations by Ippy Patterson

Music:
Johann Schenck (1660- 1712), Scherzi Musicali op.VI dall'ouverture alla Suite in re minore, Bettina Hoffmann viola da gamba

Category:

Music

Tags:

• bestiary
• bestiario
• schenck
• viola
• da
• gamba
• bettina
• hoffmann

[dirtyautomaton]

"The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination."



[Jainkeff]

COCKATRICE ("Richard III", IV, 1, v. 54; "Romeo and Juliet", III, 2, v. 47)

ELEPHANT ("Julius Caesar", II, 1, v. 206; "Troilus and Cressida", I, 2, v. 20 - II, 3, vv. 2, 104)

etc. etc.

[Jainkeff]

I sent your grace

The parcels and particulars of our grief,

The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,

Whereon this HYDRA son of war is born;

Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm’d asleep

With grant of our most just and right desires,

And true obedience, of this madness cured,

Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty.

("Henry IV", part II, IV, 2, vv. 35-42)

[Jainkeff]

There is a thousand Hectors in the field.

Now here he fights on Galate his horse,

And there lacks works; anon he’s there afoot,

And there they fly or die, like scaled schools

Before the belching WHALE. Then is he yonder,

And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,

Fall down before him like the mower’s swath.

("Troilus and Cressida", V, 5, vv. 19-25)