Historical fiction has long ranked somewhere just above romance novels and mysteries in the great chain of literary respectability, yet as David Slavitt points out in his humorous yet loving send-up of the genre, riches might be found in the most unlikely sources. The Duke's Man is, in a way, old and new--a condensation and commentary and a literary mash-up.
Historical fiction has long ranked somewhere just above romance novels and mysteries in the great chain of literary respectability, yet as David Slavitt points out in his humorous yet loving send-up of the genre, riches might be found in the most unlikely sources. The Duke's Man is, in a way, old and new--a condensation and commentary and a literary mash-up.
David Slavitt is a poet, translator, novelist, critic, and journalist. He is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and drama in translation. His latest translations are Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (2009), Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy (2008), Lucretius's De Rerum Natura (2008), and Joachim du Bellay's The Regrets (Northwestern University Press, 2004). David Slavitt's other recent works include Get Thee to a Nunnery: A Pair of Shakespearean Divertimentos (1999), Metamorphoses (for the stage, with Mary Zimmerman, Northwestern,2002), and George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me (Northwestern, 2009).
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