(The blurb in the attached back cover image is written in the style of the novel.)
This chapter summarizes the lives of our hero and heroine. The former's is historical.
I could rearrange the dialogue as verse or make some observations about points of view but let's pass over those points this time.
Throughout the novel, each chapter begins by outlining its scene. Thus:
iv
A ROOM IN THE TOWER.
v
KIRKSTALL ABBEY. MORNING.
Etc.
iv, like some others, observes the Shakespearean custom of a concluding rhyming couplet:
"For Fortune's wheel has many turns to go, and where 'tis bound for, none but God may know." (p. 30)
- which, of course, is a good lead in to the following chapter. We have read it before but have forgotten most of the details and enjoy reading it again.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Strictly speaking, Prince Rupert did not "fall" at Marston Moor in A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST. Rather, he was captured by the rebel Parliamentarians. But, I can see "captured" as being hard to use poetically in this blurb!
Ad astra! Sean
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