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Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song

January 24th, 2010 Posted in just kristin here and now

I am enchanted by sto­ries of insan­ity, espe­cially those of long ago. This per­for­mance of “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” is beau­ti­ful in its near-frothing lunacy:

The moon’s my con­stant Mis­trisse,
And the lowly owl my mor­rowe,
The flam­ing Drake and the Night­crow make
Me music to my sorrow.

One Response to “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song”

  1. Laurel says:
    2/2/2010 at 7:54 am

    Wow–what a wild record­ing! Who is nar­rat­ing, do you know? I’ve always loved this one and have wanted to do more research on it, but beyond research­ing the real Beth­le­hem Hos­pi­tal (did you know it’s now one of the lead­ers in brain research?!), I couldn’t think of an angle. Harold Bloom thinks this is one of the works of real genius, right up there with Shakespeare.

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