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Название книги: Holy Fools
Автор(ы): Joanne Harris
Жанр: Историческая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Holy-Fools-158490.html
2003
Part One. Juliette
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JULY 3RD, 1610It begins with the players. Seven of them, six men and a girl, she in sequins and ragged lace, they in leathers and silk. All of them masked, wigged, powdered, painted; Arlequin and Scaramouche and the long-nosed Plague Doctor, demure Isabelle and the lecherous Géronte, their gilded toenails bright beneath the dust of the road, their smiles whitened with chalk, their voices so harsh and so sweet that from the first they tore at my heart.They arrived unannounced in a green and gold caravan, its panels scratched and scarred, but the scarlet inscription still legible for those who could read it.LAZARILLO’S WORLD PLAYERS!TRAGEDY AND COMEDY!BEASTS AND MARVELS!And all around the script paraded nymphs and satyrs, tigers and olifants in crimson, rose, and violet. Beneath, in gold, sprawled the proud words:PLAYERS TO THE KINGI didn’t believe it myself, though they say old Henri had a commoner’s tastes, preferring a wild-beast show or a comédie-ballet to the most exquisite of trag
Название книги: Holy Fools
Автор(ы): Joanne Harris
Жанр: Историческая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Holy-Fools-158490.html
2003
Part One. Juliette
1
JULY 3RD, 1610It begins with the players. Seven of them, six men and a girl, she in sequins and ragged lace, they in leathers and silk. All of them masked, wigged, powdered, painted; Arlequin and Scaramouche and the long-nosed Plague Doctor, demure Isabelle and the lecherous Géronte, their gilded toenails bright beneath the dust of the road, their smiles whitened with chalk, their voices so harsh and so sweet that from the first they tore at my heart.They arrived unannounced in a green and gold caravan, its panels scratched and scarred, but the scarlet inscription still legible for those who could read it.LAZARILLO’S WORLD PLAYERS!TRAGEDY AND COMEDY!BEASTS AND MARVELS!And all around the script paraded nymphs and satyrs, tigers and olifants in crimson, rose, and violet. Beneath, in gold, sprawled the proud words:PLAYERS TO THE KINGI didn’t believe it myself, though they say old Henri had a commoner’s tastes, preferring a wild-beast show or a comédie-ballet to the most exquisite of trag
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