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[rm]

Okay, all you avid readers, I need help.

I need actual books that reference books or plays that don't actually exist in our world (but we perhaps wish they did) a la "The Swordsman Whose Name was not Death" from The Privilege of the Sword.

Yes, I'm up to something, although I'm not sure of the shape or viability of it yet.

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[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Ommm. Pamela Dean's Tam Lin has a play in it written by a few of the main characters, if I recall correctly.

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's a real play--The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I knew The Revenger's Tragedy was in there, but I thought they performed some of their own work at the end? My copy is on loan, alas, so I could not check. Thank you!

[miep.livejournal.com]

and a bloody, bloody piece of work it is.

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think that you're remembering the production of "The Revenger's Tragedy". It is an actual Jacobean play, author unknown. The original printings just say that it was played by the King's Men.

The other plays refered to in the book are various Shakespeare, Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and Weiss'

"The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade".

And yes, that last one really is a play.

Tam Lin is a favorite of mine.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Now I really wish I hadn't loaned my copy. because I don't remember how Marat-Sade got in there.

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

It's actually only mentioned in passing, but it sticks in my head because I thought the name was so ridiculous, then I found out that it was a real play.

I love that book, I must have read it twenty times.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, misremembered. It's of contested authorship.