This is something I have been looking for for so long. I know I will come back and watch it over and over. I am writing about Marlowe and Thomas Kyd. The little things they took for granted, the smells and sounds of their world, are quite alien to me. I only wish this world could have had people in it too. But that would have been so much harder, of course.
Actually, hanging your laundry out to dry on a line stretched across the street might have been pretty risky back then, if there's any truth to those stories about people summarily dumping slops down onto the street from second- and third-story windows rather than bothering to come downstairs to do it. But since doing laundry without machines or detergent was such a time-consuming chore, I suppose if your neighbors dumped their slops fairly early in the morning, your laundry probably wouldn't be ready to hang up until after that anyway.
Yes, and lines were strung from the second story, high above the muck. (Throwing slops from the upper story, it would be easy enough to miss the lines) Also, according to Pepys, the weather was a factor--when it was cold and rainy the drying was done indoors.
The flies were a good touch. The streets would have been crowded with people. It would have been noisy. Also animals: horses, dogs. So much going on in the street, lots of little kids, it was a younger city than we have today. Still, it was wonderful. You really got a feeling of the cozy narrow streets, the way you could have gotten to know your own little corner of the whole. Lovely!
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Anyway, thanks for posting it. it made my day.
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