It's like this season of Lewis has been specifically calculated to intersect with my particular interests. First Gaudy Night (however enragingly), and now Jacobean revenge tragedy!

( Over at inspectorlewis: spoilers for Lewis and also about a half dozen 17th-century revenge tragedies, for verily, that is how I rolle )

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Or, Yet Another Example of How Women Did Not Have a Renaissance.

According to the East Midlands Knitting Industry heritage website, Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, sponsored NOT ONLY a significant troupe of actors, but also the man who invented England's first knitting frame: William Lee. Hunsdon sponsored Lee in his quest to get a patent from Queen ( Read more... )

Because I require a reckoning. Like Everycatman ( Read more... )

FAIL, ELIZABETH BEAR.

"I am tired of all of these insults, Internets! I was trying to MODEL what GOOD BEHAVIOR looks like even though my critics were DEAD WRONG. So all of you just STOP TALKING NOW. I am turning this Internet around and going home! You are all grounded! And if you're a POC and if you're upset? SAVE IT FOR WISCON, where those ( Read more... )

Fiennes will direct and star in Coriolanus.

THIS IS POTENTIALLY BADASS. He certainly has the *acting* chops, so I hope his directing is up to the task.

MY EXCITEMENT IS TOO GREAT FOR LOWER-CASE LETTERS

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