Comments | angevin2: I've had it with these motherfucking peasants in this motherfucking city!

angevin2

I've had it with these motherfucking peasants in this motherfucking city!

May 30, 2007 22:09

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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early modern text is funny, demonstrations of outstanding maturity

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jonquil May 31 2007, 03:27:27 UTC

God love the long S.

angevin2 May 31 2007, 03:43:23 UTC

I know I do. ;)

Doesn't it totally weird you out... dakiwiboid May 31 2007, 03:28:49 UTC

that there's a senior British labor politician now named Jack Straw? It certainly made me shake my head in disbelief the first half dozen times I encountered him.

P.S. I really want to see the Stowe's Annale's excerpt.

Re: Doesn't it totally weird you out... angevin2 May 31 2007, 03:41:13 UTC

YES OMG IT DOES.

I shall have to post the Stowe, then, which is funny in an "I am so going to hell" sort of way.

Re: Doesn't it totally weird you out... queeniefox May 31 2007, 20:26:00 UTC

But at least he doesn't look like the Deamon Headmaster any more.

Sorry, British 90s kid joke.

dramaturgca May 31 2007, 03:30:14 UTC

Where the bee fucks, there fuck I...

and

There is good men porn at Monmouth

My two favourite early modern "typos".

angevin2 May 31 2007, 03:43:03 UTC

"Good men porn at Monmouth" is a great favorite of mine, too.

Then there's John Donne: "Me it fucked first, and then fucked thee" -- which is pretty much the point of the poem anyway, so the editor of my edition of Donne argues that this was intentional.

orts May 31 2007, 14:09:51 UTC

Yeah, I remarked the Donne one, too ;)

Where's that drama of the Peasants' Revolt from (better yet, can you point me to it on EEBO?)? I don't know that work.

angevin2 May 31 2007, 19:37:24 UTC

The name of the play is The Life and Death of Jack Straw, by an unknown author, printed 1594 (and again in 1604), STC number 23356.

It is actually rather an awful play, but I have a soft spot for bad chronicle history plays, especially when they're about events I'm interested in anyway. It is notable for having nearly all the cool stuff about the Revolt happening offstage -- at least in the version that saw print; the brevity of the play (the pdf I have from EEBO is only 25 pages and a couple of them are duplicates) has led the few scholars who have had much to say about it to detect the hand of the censor, and that makes it Instantly Cool. ;)

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jaydeyn_sitari May 31 2007, 04:47:34 UTC

Bwah! That's brilliant, that is!! And yes, let us not comment on topicality... >:(

:)
Jaydeyn

liseuse May 31 2007, 10:36:54 UTC

Fantastic. Oh those long s's.