328: Exploring: On Idleness by John Fisher (Dialogue)

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It's the first of three Dialogues by John Fisher - recorded in a secret London location with Liza Graham and Robert Crighton. As ever with these printed dialogues, there is the usual tension between the question as to whether they are dramatically interesting, or are tipped towards functioned as Socratic dialogue for reading alone. These were printed in 1558, at the end of the reign of one Queen (Mary), and the beginning of another (Elizabeth). Titled here as On Idleness, perhaps alternatively it should be called 'Between Gelasimus and Spudaeus' who are the two speakers.
The next dialogue, Of Maidens, is coming soon...
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