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Spenser and Hawk live in the same Boston literary universe as Parker's other, newer series characters: private investigator Sunny Randall and small town police chief Jesse Stone, the former of whom was possibly mentioned in passing as a blonde jogging with an English bull terrier ( named Rosie in the Randall novels ) while the latter had a much larger role in Back Story.
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Spenser and Hawk
The other major character in the Spenser novels is his close friend Hawk.
An African American, Hawk is an equally tough but somewhat shady echo of Spenser himself.
Spenser and Hawk met as boxing opponents in a preliminary bout in the Boston Arena ( now known as Matthews Arena ).
Spenser and Hawk respect each other and are friends who each understands the other's philosophy of how to conduct themselves in life.
He took up boxing, where he met Hawk and Henry Cimoli, the owner of a gym where Spenser and Hawk still work out.
The Spenser books were the inspiration for the 1985-1988 ABC TV series Spenser: For Hire starring Robert Urich as Spenser, Barbara Stock as Susan, and Avery Brooks as Hawk.
Beginning in 1999, Joe Mantegna played Spenser in three TV movies on the A & E cable network: Small Vices ( 1999 ), Thin Air ( 2000 ), Walking Shadow ( 2001 ), with Marcia Gay Harden as Susan and Shiek Mahmud-Bey and later Ernie Hudson as Hawk.
Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Robert Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X.
In 1985, Brooks landed the role of Hawk on the ABC television detective series Spenser: For Hire.
Brooks returned to play Hawk in four Spenser television movies: Spenser: Ceremony, Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes, Spenser: The Judas Goat and Spenser: A Savage Place.
:* A Man Called Hawk, a television series based upon the character in the Spenser novels
Spenser and same
The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims " were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same ".
This is because the same note also refers to Spenser and Watson as if they were still alive (" our flourishing metricians "), but also mentions " Owen's new epigrams ", published in 1607.
Sidney uses the same envoi structure as Spenser.
On the death of Edmund Spenser, in the same year, Daniel received the somewhat vague office of Poet Laureate, which he seems, however to have shortly resigned in favour of Ben Jonson.
Spenser, in his Teares of the Muses ( 1591 ), laments the same evils, although only in general terms.
In " An Eye For An Eye ", Spenser quotes something from Edmund Spenser, a famous 16th century poet, so that may be where the name originated as the spelling is the same.
Spenser alludes to Susan's disappearance in the opening VO to episode 2 of season 2, and covers it completely — in almost the same terms as in the novel Valediction — in the final scene of the episode.
However, the term " Redlegs " and its variants were in use for Irish soldiers of the same sort as those later transported to Barbados, and the variant " Red-shankes " is recorded by Edmund Spenser in his dialogue on " the Present State of Ireland " as early as the 16th century.
Ulloor, a literary historian of Kerala, has said that Rama Panikkar holds the same position in Malayalam literature that Spenser does in English literature.
Spenser and Boston
Spenser was born in Laramie, Wyoming and is a Boston private eye in the mold of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, a smart-mouthed tough guy with a heart of gold.
Spenser was a former State trooper assigned to the Suffolk County DA's Office ( although some novels state that he also worked out of the Middlesex County DA's Office, for example in Walking Shadow and the pilot episode of Spenser: For Hire said he was a Boston Police detective ), and regularly seeks help from ( or sometimes butts heads with ) Martin Quirk ( originally a lieutenant, later a captain ) of the Boston Police Department.
At the end of the novel, Spenser leaves his father and uncles behind in Wyoming to attend college in Boston.
The volumes on the works of Edmund Spenser ( five volumes, Boston, 1855 ) and the English and Scottish Ballads ( in eight small volumes, Boston, 1857 – 1858 ), Child edited himself.
* The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, with a critical introduction ( 5 vols., Boston, 1839 )
Robert B. Parker's most popular mystery series features a Boston detective known only as Spenser who has had a series of three solid-liver German shorthairs, all named Pearl: one who stood with him during a bear charge in his rural youth ; one given to his girlfriend by her ex-husband ; and the third Pearl, to keep company with Spenser and his girlfriend in their late middle age.
Spenser lived in Boston and, like many detectives on TV, drove distinctive cars ; at first a mildly-worn ivy green ' 66 Ford Mustang ( possibly a nod to Steve McQueen's Mustang in Bullitt ) which gets destroyed a few episodes into the second season, then a brand new 1987 Mustang 5. 0 GT, then after 5 or so episodes trades it for a beautifully restored 1966 Mustang GT.
In the second season, we find that the Fire Department took the station back as they needed it and Spenser finds himself in a small top floor apartment in Charlestown, near the old Boston Navy Yard which he now uses as his office.
Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, which is located right off of Charles Street and was also used in the television series Spenser: For Hire The show made its debut in 1997.
* 127 Mount Vernon Street-home of The Real World: Boston and Spenser: For Hire, former Boston Fire Department station
Spenser and literary
Puzzled by the gap between the bare facts of William Shakespeare's life and his vast literary output, she intended to prove that the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written by a coterie of men, including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser, for the purpose of inculcating a philosophic system, for which they felt that they themselves could not afford to assume the responsibility.
Other literary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the ( possibly fictitious ) ' Areopagus ', a humanist endeavour to classicise English verse.
Unlike the Fletchers and Habington, who looked back to “ Spenser ’ s art and Sydney's wit ,” they come under the influence both of the newer literary fashions of Jonson and Fres, and of the revived spirit of cultured devotion in the Anglican church.
It was about this time, too, that he brought out Endimion and Phoebe, a volume which he never republished, but which contains some interesting autobiographical matter, and acknowledgments of literary help from Thomas Lodge, if not from Edmund Spenser and Samuel Daniel also.
Harpenden has a large number of its streets named after English literary figures on the East side of the town ( an area known, unsurprisingly, as the Poets ' Corner ), including Byron Road, Cowper Road, Kipling Way, Milton Road, Shakespeare Road, Spenser Road, Shelley Court, Tennyson Road, Townsend Road, Masefield Road and Wordsworth Road.
By the time of Elizabethan literature a vigorous literary culture in both drama and poetry established authors such as Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare initiating the storied history of English Renaissance theatre.
She turned Wilton into a " paradise for poets ", known as " The Wilton Circle " which included Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Sir John Davies and Samuel Daniel, a salon-type literary group sustained by the Countess's hospitality.
He produced woodcuts and wood engravings first as decorations to literary periodicals, and then increasingly as illustrations for books produced by the private presses ; these include Jonathan Swift ’ s Directions to Servants ( Golden Cockerel Press, 1925 ) and Edmund Spenser ’ s The Shepheard ’ s Calendar ( Cresset Press, 1930 ).
In late 1599 he published Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion, containing a sonnet on Shakespeare, and epigrams on Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, William Warner and Christopher Middleton, all of which are valuable to the literary historian.
Spenser and Parker's
The first three novels resemble private-eye detective stories, perhaps the closest being Robert B. Parker's Spenser series.
Additionally, he played Robert B. Parker's fictional detective Spenser in three made-for-TV movies between 1999 and 2001.
In his romantic view of the world, he bears a resemblance to Robert B. Parker's Spenser.
Spenser: For Hire is a mystery television series based on Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels.
In particular, the lack of any known first name for Markham is inspired by Vachss ' Burke Series and Parker's Spenser.
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