#ooc

but this is theatre history, not costume

so

Shakespeare!

Marlowe!

James and his ghost obsession!

Iambic pentameter!

Cross Dressing!

Catholics, Protestants, and gunpowder!

Carpe diem!

November 5th 🙂

"Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions"

Oh, you already made it through medieval pageant wagons, I'm assuming...do you do how the pageant wagons + inn courtyards --> Elizabethan theater architecture?

Ha! That's a great quote, Mr. D.

It is a theory, yes

though there's also a distinct roman influence - platform stage, tiring house...

*giggle* "All the boning...."

Oh thank you, I was so good not laughing at that term.

I will likely go on a tangent about Oxfordians

I will try not to rant

I prefer websters!

They are the flat-earthers of the theatre world

wow that sounds bad

Oxfordians, Baconites, Marlovians, etc... all believe that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare.

usually because he was a common-as-dirt middle class boy from the sticks

They come up with conspiracy theories - like, say, Marlow faked his death to write in secret after his resounding cirtical and financial success under his own name

Oh, I've heard of those guys. Rolls eyes As a peasant myself, balls to that!

yup!

hissssss

Classist bigotry is an ugly ugly thing and it also limits you

(And yes, I realize my love for nobles in CTD means I'm a bit two faced on this)

Sorry, was AFK. Yes, the classical influences re-emerged when the pageant stages got exiled from the cathedrals and onto the wagons...had to reconstruct the classical amphitheater within the structures existing at the time, until more real theaters got built.

And yeah, anti-Stratfordians can suck it.

our chair is one

I also love that we wouldn't have half of Shakespeare's sonnets if it weren't for the plague.

Oh?

Yup. Plague shut down the theaters. Billy had to make a buck, so he wrote commissioned poetry.

yup!

I did not know this, but given the time line, now I feel foolish for not

And marlowe died in a bar fight concerning the company of a widow

Shakespeare's last will also cracks me up. He bequeaths to his wife the "second-best bed"...talk about casting shade!!!!

Marlowe was a playa.

he was

Then again, so was Billy.

rahne, you ever see shakespeare in love?

Yup, but I don't remember it well.

omg, it is one of my favorites

historical accuracy is.. dodgy... but oh, the sass! the costumes! the theatre jokes!

Indeed!

I may look for it, you guys sometimes take my suggestions so only fair