1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
Author: first_name: Mark
last_name: Twain
Language: English
Year: 1880

<strong>Please note: this recording contains strong language.</strong><br /><br />

"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