Comments | angevin2: I love the Renaissance.

angevin2

I love the Renaissance.

Jan 24, 2009 15:08

Those of you on the flist who are early modernists, have read a lot of Shakespeare, especially if you also do a lot of context-based work or use Folger editions frequently, are probably familiar with this woodcut:

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the elizabethans are different, talking renaissance pants

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stultiloquentia January 24 2009, 21:39:57 UTC

Ha ha! I really love my flist.

txanne January 24 2009, 21:40:04 UTC

OH MY GOD!

ouer wipt with gold twist, intersemed with knots of pearle

I KNOW HOW TO DO THAT KIND OF EMBROIDERY! Those are some *seriously* fancy-ass pants. (Hur hur hur.)

txanne January 24 2009, 21:53:14 UTC

Also, was this when "quaint" meant, uh, you know, that meaning it doesn't have any more? Because my modern mind is going hur hur quaint! hur hur greater dumpe!

angevin2 January 24 2009, 22:00:22 UTC

Well, quaint as a term for female genitalia was archaic by the 1590s, but still available for puns (references to making womens' acquaintance in Ren. drama, for instance, are bawdy jokes) and euphemisms. (OED suggests, btw, that quaint and cunning and probably also cunt -- which was an extant word as early as the fourteenth century -- are all connected to the Latin cognitus 'known').

txanne January 24 2009, 22:03:15 UTC

My brain, she is broked.

Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long executrix January 24 2009, 22:05:22 UTC

I had no idea either, although in Blakes7 fandom, there are several stories narrated by, e.g., Avon's leather pants and Avon's hooker boots.

reconditarmonia January 24 2009, 22:05:26 UTC

I wasn't scared but yet I stopped. What could those pants be there for?
What could a pair of pants at night be standing in the air for?

(This is win and crack.)