Book Post · Jun 18, 2026

Guest Notebook: Sarah Ruden, Criticism Then

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Sounds like things were even worse for Vergil

Screenshot: Fiona Shaw reads the prologue in a production of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, with Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Musical Director. Recorded in 2008 at the Opéra Comique, Paris. “And if the Deity’s above, / Are Victims of the powers of Love, / What must wretched Mortals do.”

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