MANICHAEAN
08-22-2010, 07:02 AM
Interesting bit of speculation trivia I came across last week.
I have always had this image of Raymond Chandler as a 100% born & bred US writer as reflected so emphatically in his style & backdrops of writing.
But then I read that his original formal education was at Dulwich College on the outskirts of London, a school whose pupils were well taught along old fashioned lines and who were particularly well grounded in the classics.
Founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn an actor-manager whose company "The Admirals Men", included the poet & playwright Christopher Marlowe, forerunner of Shakespeare. For those of you who like Chandler, you know his narrator-hero was named Philip Marlowe.
Mind you, if you find that link tentative, you may be right. Any comparisons I've missed with " Tamburlaine" or "Dr Faustus?"
I have always had this image of Raymond Chandler as a 100% born & bred US writer as reflected so emphatically in his style & backdrops of writing.
But then I read that his original formal education was at Dulwich College on the outskirts of London, a school whose pupils were well taught along old fashioned lines and who were particularly well grounded in the classics.
Founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn an actor-manager whose company "The Admirals Men", included the poet & playwright Christopher Marlowe, forerunner of Shakespeare. For those of you who like Chandler, you know his narrator-hero was named Philip Marlowe.
Mind you, if you find that link tentative, you may be right. Any comparisons I've missed with " Tamburlaine" or "Dr Faustus?"