nineweaving linked to the National Archive's paleography tutorial a couple of days ago, and I have sort of become addicted to it, because it is fun and because I feel sort of inept for having a Ph.D. in Renaissance lit and yet being unable to read Elizabethan secretary hand (although granted it is pretty hard to read). If I could actually go to the British ( Read more... )

I am really confused now because there is a book on the shelf over my head called "DIFCO MANUAL, NINTH EDITION," in all caps like that, and I cannot help but read it as really saying "DISCO MANUAL."

I have the long S problem backwards.

*headdesk*

These are all from Richard Barnfield's Complaint of Daphnis, which I spent way too much of my evening reading after noticing an excerpt from it in the Bedford Companion to Shakespeare (from which my students are reading the Tudor Homily on Matrimony). The Bedford Companion reproduces only enough to illustrate that the poem is intensely homoerotic, ( Read more... )

Okay, so since the "hilarious early modern typos" tag was being used for comical nonstandard spellings and opportune uses of the long S as well as, indeed more often than, for genuine typos, I have changed it to something more apt. At any rate, this makes me giggle far too much.


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Despite the tags on this image, this is less "hilarious early modern typos" than it is "particularly amusing uses of the long S," but I do not know that I need to have that as a tag even if it weren't too long for one (though I should possibly post the utterly staggering excerpt from Stowe's Annales that uses it to mindboggling effect).


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I had an eye exam today and now my eyes feel all icky and tired from having been full of those horrible eye drops they put in to make your pupils dilate.

I hate going to the eye doctor. I sit there and think of King Lear the whole time ( Read more... )

I am procrastinating insanely and have access to a scanner, so I thought I would share with you all my favorite compositorial error in Shakespeare (it's in the textual notes, highlighted).

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