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

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A melancholy Romeo enters and is questioned by his cousin Benvolio, who learns that the cause of Romeo’s sadness is unrequited love. At the beginning of A Plague on Both Your Houses, the Master of Michaelhouse is found dead in rather bizarre circumstances. The main gates of the College were locked, but the scholar had ensured that the little-used back door was left open. Brother Bartholomew does not know who to trust so keeps his own counsel but that causes him to even distrust the people he loves.

The protagonist is Matthew Bartholomew who is an academic and physician at Michaelhouse College (now part of Trinity).and wanting it out in the world, I printed it up as a Halloween pamphlet that I circulated to friends and colleagues. Although he is a close friend of Romeo he has not been on either side in the feud and has become sick and tired of this ancient grudge that has poisoned the life of Verona and all its citizens, and has now killed him. Adding terms for "a plague upon" (green line) and "a pox upon" (orange line) for the period 1700–2000 to the original Ngram yields an Ngram that for the most part reinforces the earlier chart, though it suggests a somewhat larger overall advantage for "a plague on/upon" over "a pox on/upon. The horrified miller watched it salute him three times before he was able to scramble to his feet and race towards the town screaming for help. In Twelfth Night, for example, Sir Toby Belch, suffering from indigestion stops in the middle of a sentence and exclaims “A plague on these pickled herrings!

Gregory has a pleasing style, which engages the reader, but is not afraid of approaching the political machinations of a Cambridge college at this time. Romeo, having just married Juliet (who is Tybalt’s cousin), swears he’s not, but Tybalt challenges him to draw. This is the first book in the long-running Chronicles of Matthew Bartholomew and I have been assured the books get better as they go on. Romeo and Juliet] the pox upon her green-sickness [ Pericles] a pox of that jest [Love's Labour's Lost] a pox on him [ All's Well That Ends Well] a pox upon him for me [same] a pox on't [same and Cymbeline] a pox o' your throat [Tempest] pox of your love letters, [ Two Gentlemen of Verona] pox, leave thy damnable faces [ Hamlet] show your knave's visage, with a pox to you [ Measure for Measure] what a pox have I to do with my hostess [ Henry IV Part 1]. In Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Mercutio’s curse foreshadows the fate of the ‘star-crossed lovers’ (who secretly marry): Juliet will fake her death with a sleeping potion (to avoid marrying Paris), Romeo will commit suicide believing Juliet dead (a crucial letter from Fr.

A must read for those who like historical fiction and death and mayhem with puzzles to be solved and people to be rescued! The Queen was powerful and influential in Europe, and London was the premier international city, as it is today.

Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. Gray followed him from house to house carrying the heavy bag that contained Bartholomew’s instruments and medicines. Religion and faith/s of every kind take the long view: they hope for an end and final validation of their spiritual quest.Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer.

The Nurse recommends that Juliet forget the banished Romeo and regard Paris as a more desirable husband. But the Plague was never far away and the theatres were major spreaders, so when it struck London again in 1601 and again in1603, the theatres, seen as particularly dangerous spots for the spread of the disease, were again closed. In Venus and Adonis he explained that love was so pure and beautiful as “to drive infection from the dangerous year,” and so powerful “That the star-gazers, having writ on death,/May say, the plague is banish’d by thy breath. Romeo’s friend, Mercutio, dies in the town square after an accident while play-fighting with Juliet’s cousin Tibalt. As Bartholomew investigates, he uncovers a horrific web of lies and intrigue that makes him question those closest to him and may result in the destruction of the university itself.Like a Dickens novel, La Peste is populated by vivid characters; particularly, by over-whelmed medics and officials. The first in the series, A Plague on Both Your Houses is set against the ravages of the Black Death and subsequent novels take much of their subject matter from the attempts of society to recover from this disaster.