The Nicholas Bracewell Collection
“He loved her ardently with a reckless disregard of her unsuitability for this honour. Rose Marwood was a goddess in an apron to him. Her blithe presence in his life gave it new hope and purpose. The agonies surrounding the performance of his play had left him even more in need of the heady consolations of romance, and he was driven by one desire. She must be his.
Alexander Marwood was a serious hindrance to his wishes. The landlord’s vigorous melancholy drew much of its strength from his fe...ars for his daughter. Obsessed with the notion that Rose would be debauched at any moment, he rarely let her out of his sight. One of the penalties of giving hospitality to a dramatic company at The Queen’s Head was that every female on the premises was put at risk. To the harrowed landlord, all actors were promiscuous lechers without a moral scruple between them and the fact that two of his serving-wenches were with child confirmed this view.
Edmund Hoode was therefore baulked time and again.MoreLess
Alexander Marwood was a serious hindrance to his wishes. The landlord’s vigorous melancholy drew much of its strength from his fe...ars for his daughter. Obsessed with the notion that Rose would be debauched at any moment, he rarely let her out of his sight. One of the penalties of giving hospitality to a dramatic company at The Queen’s Head was that every female on the premises was put at risk. To the harrowed landlord, all actors were promiscuous lechers without a moral scruple between them and the fact that two of his serving-wenches were with child confirmed this view.
Edmund Hoode was therefore baulked time and again.MoreLess
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