Elizabethan Memes for Bond of Association Teens

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[elizabethan-memes]

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[elizabethan-memes]

I don't know how to say it without sounding like I'm going "yay, backstory!"

But I find it interesting when Shakespeare's plays are the aftermaths of previous highly dramatic events. They begin at the tail ends of other stories.

Macbeth begins AFTER Duncan is victorious over the Thane of Cawdor. Julius Caesar begins AFTER he's defeated Pompey &co. Hamlet begins AFTER the death of Old Hamlet. Othello begins AFTER the whirlwind romance of Desdemona and Othello. The Tempest is not about Prospero's deposition and expulsion from Milan- but about what's AFTER. And of course Romeo and Juliet, the ultimate play about consequences.

Richard III is the exception because Shakespeare did the whole wars of the Roses. But even then, we usually perform it in isolation. And of the 4 plays, it's Richard III- the play about the aftermath- that's the most-performed.

I guess it's because it's the nature of life- events and stories overlap. things happen one after another, people don't just sit around and then go "time for Act One! Let's now do an inciting incident!"

[elizabethan-memes]

How the English learned to hate Catholics

Medieval England was proudly Catholic, but after the Reformation, anti-catholic prejudice came to be a cornerstone of English and then Briti

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Visitors to Henry VIII's court:

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Wolf Hall, Series 1:

[english-history-trip]

A Tudor salt dish, made between 1530-1550. The item itself is made using salt-glaze pottery, where salt was thrown into the kiln during clay firing to create a glossy, orange-peel-like texture. Formed into the shape of a woman in Tudor clothing, it was glazed with polychrome brown with some yellow to highlight the decoration. Measuring 16.9cm high, salt would have been held in the little dish coming out from the dress of the lady. Salt was a very valuable commodity in the Tudor period, and ownership of it was often a status symbol. Henry VIII had multiple salt holders in his possession upon his death, and his daughter Elizabeth I granted a patent for a new type of iron pan in the 1560s intended to increase salt production in Tyneside. Much salt at this time was imported to London from France, but during the 16th century there was a boom in salt production in Scotland. This salt dish was found in Cardiff's High Street in 1892 when workmen were digging the foundations for a Lloyd's Bank. It was broken and the base has since been heavily restored with plaster of paris. It is held today at St Fagans Gweithdy gallery, Cardiff.

[english-history-trip]

Took a shot at making her bc I had to; gotta say, she's a little spookier in person.

[uququ]

the pagan origins of the fourth of july

[lev-myshkin]

pagan origins of easter people voice: did you know that the 4th of july was actually originally a roman holiday! it was named after julius caesar

[elizabethan-memes]

@tarseus

[assiraphales]

ok so apparently in celebration of the 250th anniversary of paul revere’s ride this was projected onto a church in boston??

[xiaq]

“A church”?? That’s Old North Church! That’s THE church where the lanterns were lit.

[11thfempachi]

Girls just wanna have fun

[elizabethan-memes]

When Crosse and Blackwell in 1855 introduced brown pickles to the British public, made without the poisonous green food colouring of their predecessors, sales collapsed. One disgruntled pickle-lover felt that he 'ought to be very much obliged, of course, to those disinterested medical gentlemen' who campaigned for purer food, but for his own part he really liked 'anchovies to be red and pickles green.'

Lucy Worsley, If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Do you think it's immoral to use chatgpt for college assignments? I think it's unfortunately unavoidable.

It is absolutely immoral, completely counterproductive to the goal of learning things, and turns out incredibly subpar work.

As for unavoidable….you understand that the vast majority of people who have ever graduated college throughout history did so without ever once using AI, right? You understand that?

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

You understand that the point of writing papers isn’t just to have a paper with words on it, right? You understand that the entire point is to do the mental work necessary to put your learning into organized words, such that you actually learn it? And that if you outsource that to AI you are not learning?

[romanceyourdemons]

lmao i’m reading this essay from the 1580s that mentions how if you were wearing a big elizabethan ruff and you got caught in the rain it would flip up in the wind and hit you in the face, and then you’d have to spend the rest of the day with your stupid soggy ruff all flaccid on your shoulders. can you imagine. whole new potentials for pathetic unlocked

[elizabethan-memes]

[romanceyourdemons]

lmao i’m reading this essay from the 1580s that mentions how if you were wearing a big elizabethan ruff and you got caught in the rain it would flip up in the wind and hit you in the face, and then you’d have to spend the rest of the day with your stupid soggy ruff all flaccid on your shoulders. can you imagine. whole new potentials for pathetic unlocked

[brilliantsun]

Why is Catherine Howard always described as vain, on the grounds that she knew what happened to Anne Boleyn yet still wanted to become queen?

By contrast, why is Thomas Cromwell rarely labelled vain for staying active in high politics, fully aware of Wolsey’s fate?

[tridentandtales]

Relief of a seated poet (Menander?) looking at comedic masks (of a youth, a woman, and a satyr)

1st century BCE - 1st century CE

Princeton University Art Museum y1951-1

[thylacine-dreams]

Thylacine at Hobart Zoo, c. 1928. Photograph by H J King, Hobart.

Source: QVMAG