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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anatomiste January 24 2009, 22:21:22 UTC

"soberly marching, and with a softer pace, as if they were not too hasty, and yet would keepe promise neuerthelesse at the place appointed."

O, brave pants!

gileonnen January 24 2009, 22:27:41 UTC

*cracks up* Having just read Lingua, in which the first characters to show up on the stage are the tongue and the ear, I am no longer surprised by early modern personifications.

angevin2 January 24 2009, 22:32:13 UTC

omg, Lingua! I read that when I was doing my MA, because I took a class with a prof who was really into it.

For some reason, though, it did not weird me out as much as the pants did. This is either because Lingua is a play and thus I was visualizing the characters as people in allegorical costumes, or because pants are intrinsically hilarious.

Apparently there's also an academic drama in which all the characters are geometric shapes, too, sort of an Elizabethan version of The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, but I can't remember who wrote it or what it's called.

gileonnen January 24 2009, 22:34:34 UTC

XD XD Whereas, because I am twelve, I was totally imagining a floppy tongue wandering around onstage. But you're right--pants are funnier.

angevin2 January 24 2009, 23:13:42 UTC

I bet that the people who made these commercials would do a pretty awesome job animating Lingua.

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aleyma January 24 2009, 22:49:24 UTC

Hee! I love that you've now added a talking pants tag.

angevin2 January 24 2009, 23:10:18 UTC

I kind of suspect that at some point down the line I'll want to find this entry again, and having a special tag for it will make it much easier.

capriuni January 24 2009, 22:55:59 UTC

This post has made my day.

I now want to see it acted out by the Jim Henson muppeteers workshop. They do excellent work with bemused humans meeting sentient clothing.

Our f'lists have very little overlap. So, if you do not mind, I will rec this entry in my LJ... May I?

angevin2 January 24 2009, 23:09:47 UTC

Feel free!

elanor_two January 24 2009, 22:56:54 UTC

What glory! What courageous pants!

THIS is just one reason why earlymoderns (all one word; I feel like I need a scientific classification) are AWESOME. :D