![]() ![]() Instead of Shakespeare there is Edmund Meredith, playwright of the middling The Blackamoor instead of Christopher Wren, there is a cowardly, anti-papist woodcarver and there is Isaac Fleming, creator of the wedding cake. Rutherfurd lavishes his greatest attention on the minor figures in English history rather than the greats. Such chapter headings as ""The Tower,"" ""Hampton Court"" and ""The Globe"" reveal Rutherfurd's primary technique-to create verbal dioramas that, alas, too often feel as static and didactic as museum displays. Like his aesthetic mentor, James Michener, Rutherfurd (Russka Sarum) takes readers from primordial days to the present here he focuses on the last 2000 years of humanity on the island kingdom as manifested through the fortunes of seven families and one ancient, ever-evolving city. ![]()
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