Comments | tempestsarekind: a plague on both your houses

tempestsarekind

a plague on both your houses

Oct 03, 2007 12:16

I have a really hard time reading or watching things about the plague. (When my friend and I went to the Museum of London in August, we were practically the only people who didn't stop to watch the video about the Black Death ( Read more... )

sections, sonnets, romeo plus juliet, romeo and juliet, the renaissance is not for wimps, london, elizabethan stuff

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angevin2 October 3 2007, 18:17:05 UTC

Oh man, I thought I was the only one. About plague, I mean; I only fear teaching when it's comp.

The place to go, if you can steel yourself, is probably Nashe's Wonderful Year, but you may already know that.

tempestsarekind October 3 2007, 18:31:44 UTC

No, it's a real problem for me. I (partly) blame my mother, who used to watch a lot of TV about Nostradamus and the end times when I was young (she's not really religious, but oddly interested in prophecies), and then I would have nightmares about pestilence. Fun!

I thought Wonderful Year was Dekker? I checked it out for a paper that I thought would involve people's worries about the succession, only it turned out not to, and I never read it. It might still be on my bookshelf, actually...

angevin2 October 3 2007, 19:14:30 UTC

AUGH. You are right, and I am wrong. They're both named Thomas and interested in London civic culture and cony-catching, and that's the only excuse I can make for my memory lapse.

tempestsarekind October 4 2007, 17:16:27 UTC

See? They are practically the same person! :)