Some more links for you all ( Read more... )

So you know how in That Oxford Movie, Oxford is Elizabeth's illegitimate son (although she doesn't realize it and then they have a bemulleted incest baby who is Southampton)? Which would make him Henry VIII's grandson?

Take a look at these two pictures:


( Read more... )

angevin2: also, you know what the moral of this play is?
angevin2: ALWAYS LISTEN TO YOUR WIFE
lareinenoire: It is!
lareinenoire: It totally is!
lareinenoire: In ur historiography, emphasizin ur wimmins!
angevin2: nobody does, and they all come to bad ends
lareinenoire: I think we've cracked it. Thomas of Woodstock was written by a pissed-off wife. ;)
angevin2: hee. clearly ;)
angevin2: possibly with a gay husband ;)
lareinenoire: Either that or a ( Read more... )

So lareinenoire and I were talking about Shakespeare crossovers, and this happened:

angevin2: anyway, all the plays set on the continent more or less in shakespeare's day cross over quite easily
lareinenoire: Yes indeed.
angevin2: all plays in britain are more or less doing their own thing ;)
lareinenoire: They are, rather.
angevin2: merry wives is sort of a special case since it is a spinoff
lareinenoire: It is. It ( Read more... )

Beth just sent me this rather alarming quote from an otherwise reputable article in a reputable journal (emphasis mine):
"Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature," Richard recreates the world around him in his own twisted image in parody of divine creation. By ruining God's image, he spitefully attempts to pay back the Maker of his own misshapen ( Read more... )

So in a locked post about the authorship controversy, I got into a conversation with matociquala about name punning as proof of authorship in Shakespeare's plays. I pointed out, when she commented on Shakespeare's punning on his own name as evidence against anyone else's authorship -- a very, very good point in Shakespeare's favor -- that a favorite Oxfordian ( Read more... )

Courtesy of rymenhild: The real story on what happened to the Princes in the Tower.

ricardienne and the_alchemist will be particularly amused by this, methinks... ;)

So today in class we were talking about Othello and especially about the symbolism of Desdemona's handkerchief, and the points got raised that a) it almost seems to have its own agency, and b) people who've come into possession of it are affected morally or otherwise behave unusually (e.g. Emilia conceals the fact that she found it, Cassio acts ( Read more... )

...achieved while discussing the trendiness of Christopher Marlowe with commodorified:

Marlowe is the Sirius Black of Elizabethan drama.

Discuss. Or, you know, don't. ;)

1. There is a pile of quarters sitting on my shelf of which I have no recollection, as I don't recall having quarters at hand. Nevertheless, this is pleasant as it means I can do laundry or park on the street.

2. I think that if I ever stage Thomas of Woodstock I will end it by having an anachronistically-dressed Duchess of Ireland rush the stage ( Read more... )