Hi, I have just read my mail and realised that it didn't make much sense, what I meant was....
Mr. Rooley, says that he does not believe that Dowland was such a staunch Catholic and was not "paranoid" as Sting tries to describe him. Also that Dowland may have been a spy,something that Sting also does not want to hear. I had a look at the DVD version, which is maybe longer than the Television programme. The discussion is interesting because as Diana Poulton's book (have a look at pages 40-41) states being Catholic did not mean that you experienced the sort of persecution that Sting tries to suggest Dowland suffered.The funny thing is that the catholic musician Byrd has a wonderfully sucessful life under Elizabeth. Mr. Rooley's Early Music Magazine (January 1983) article "New light on John Dowland's songs of darkness" shows a very different view of Dowland not as the misunderstood paranoid, but as an artist who articulated ideas that form a central to the renaissance. best wishes Mark -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
