1601
By Mark Twain
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1601 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain
1601
Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
First published by Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. 2022
Copyright © 2022 by Mark Twain
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Introduction
1. Who Wrote 1601?
2. The First Printing Verbatim Reprint
3. Footnotes to Frivolity
About the Author
Introduction
Born irreverent,
scrawled Mark Twain on a scratch pad, —like all other people I have ever known or heard of—I am hoping to remain so while there are any reverent irreverences left to make fun of.
Mark Twain was just as irreverent as he dared be, and 1601 reveals his richest expression of sovereign contempt for overstuffed language, genteel literature, and conventional idiocies. Later, when a magazine editor apostrophized, O that we had a Rabelais!
Mark impishly and anonymously—submitted 1601; and that same editor, a praiser of Rabelais, scathingly abused it and the sender. In this episode, as in many others, Mark Twain, the bad boy
of American literature, revealed his huge delight in blasting the shams of contemporary hypocrisy. Too, there was always the spirit of Tom Sawyer deviltry in Mark’s make-up that prompted him, as he himself boasted, to see how much holy indignation he could stir up in the world.
1
Who Wrote 1601?
The correct and complete title of 1601, as first issued, was: [Date, 1601.]
‘Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors.’ For many years after its anonymous first issue in 1880, its authorship was variously conjectured and widely disputed. In Boston, William T. Ball, one of the leading theatrical critics during the late go’s, asserted that it was originally written by an English actor (name not divulged) who gave it to him. Ball’s original, it was said, looked like a newspaper strip in the way it was printed, and may indeed have been a proof pulled in some newspaper office. In St. Louis, William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis Mirror, had seen this famous tour de force circulated in the early 80’s in galley-proof form; he first learned from Eugene Field that it was from the pen of Mark Twain.
Many people,
said Reedy, "thought the thing was done by Field and attributed, as a joke, to Mark Twain. Field had a perfect genius for that sort of thing, as many extant specimens attest, and for that sort of practical joke; but to my thinking the humor of the piece is too mellow —not hard and bright and bitter—
to be Eugene Field’s." Reedy’s opinion hits off the fundamental difference between these two great