A Plague On Both Your Houses: The First Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew)

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A Plague On Both Your Houses: The First Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew)

A Plague On Both Your Houses: The First Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew)

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I’m glad I tried this book, the author is a historian and the main character of Matthew Bartholomew was likable and interesting.

At any rate, ill-wishers have urged both "a plague on" and "a pox on" the objects of their ire for centuries past. He is literally asking for a plague, or some terrible fate, to befall both families, since he blames both families for his imminent death.That first instance ("a plague on both the houses") remained unchanged from the first folio in the 1623 edition, while the two subsequent instances of "A pox o' both your houses" became "A plague o' both your houses. He felt his knees turn to jelly when he saw the wheel and what was caught in it, and sank onto the grass, unable to tear his eyes away. I shall be fairly mounted upon four men's shoulders for your house of the Montague's and the Capulets: . Long covid is a heterogeneous disease with multimorbidities affecting several physiological systems.

I did like the characters, and look forward to continuing with the series but I hope future books are a little more streamlined. When I was a freshman in college, a friend gave me a copy of Albert Camus's The Plague, a Nobel Prize-winning novel about a modern city in Algeria that was devastated by bubonic plague. It comes from Romeo and Juliet, and is the last words – a curse – of a character who is dying as a result of the feud between the two families. Sure, the Death may have distracted me (and the characters) from the mystery for a bit, but it became an important part of the story. Another novel which is the first in a crime series set in medieval England (like Cadfael and Shardlake).

Schmidt's list seems to omit the instance from The Merchant of Venice (cited in a comment by user159691), so it may not be exhaustive; my summary of Schmidt's collection above omits a number of citations not accompanied by specific quotations. A plague o’ both your houses” —William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, scene 1 “[W]hen into the distinguished city of Florence, more noble than any other Italian city, there came the deadly pestilence. Said as an exclamation of exasperation with, disgust for, or rejection of both of two opposing people or groups.

It looks like this book might have been popular with the original fans, because Susanna Gregory spun this off into a series, and there are totally 24 books in the series now, all starring our Doctor Bartholomew. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. I can only go so long without a book set in the English Middle Ages and this one had the bonus of being 14th century, a time period I became hooked on after reading some of Karen Maitland’s writing.At times the story was too convoluted and the "Let's summarize what we know" moments were annoying, but it was a good enough introduction to make me want to read more about the selfless physician, Matthew Bartholomew. Like a Dickens novel, La Peste is populated by vivid characters; particularly, by over-whelmed medics and officials. But he is distracted by the sudden and inexplicable death of the Master of Michaelhouse – a death the University authorities do not want investigated. The plague rages through England in 1348, and he finds himself one of the few physicians willing to treat and comfort the suffering poor. Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer.

As an historian myself I know that when you have to fill in the gaps that your sources leave you need a lot of imagination and SG has this in spades.

I love murder mysteries, adore books set in Abbeys and Monasteries and a murder mystery set in an Abbey, well couldn’t be better, a dream come true or so I thought. So the first folio actually has Mercutio say "A pox o' both your houses" twice; but it also has him say earlier in the scene (when he has just been "scratched" by Tybalt's rapier) "I am hurt——A plague on both the houses! THE SCHOLAR WAITED IN THE BLACK SHADOW OF the churchyard trees for the Sheriff's night patrol to pass by, trying to control his breathing. A cross between Eco’s ‘In the Name of Rose’ and the Shardalake series, both excellent but here in this avatar pitiful and painful for the absurd plot.



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