#Elizabethan era

[thebeautifulbook]

Elizabethan book cover worked in gold, silk and pearls on red velvet.

[descendinight]

sketch 牧师的闲暇日✝️🛁

[elephantlovemedleys]

Elizabeth + Robert Dudley's bear and ragged staff emblem chain ELIZABETH (1998) dir. SHEKHAR KAPUR

[the-fab-fox]

So due to the recent gorgeous gowns I've reblogged today and the fact that my hairline is receding with a vengeance...

Fig. 1 & Fig. 2

(no comments of a superficial nature or coming from a place of sociatal beauty standards will be permitted and will quickly be eradicated. you have been warned.)

... I have contemplated perhaps the craziest, zaniest, cookiest, most out-of-the-box "cosplay" idea that I think might have ever been conceived.

The idea?

William Shakespeare in Old Timey Gowns

Thoughts?

Lmk if I'm crazy (pos) or crazy (neg)

Thank y'all lol

[vox-anglosphere]

Burghley House

[etherealyearning]

Hardwick Hall

[dreams-shape-the-world]

I love Shakespeare, and I love Hamlet, compound that with the fact that they had Aziraphale and Crowley at the Globe Theater while they were playing Hamlet put me over the moon.

What I find most amusing, is that both Michael Sheen and David Tennant have both played the part of the Danish prince.

So we have our favorite angel and demon, meeting at the Globe because of their new "arrangement" to do miracles or temptations that are just plain and simple, a pain in the ass to do, but management wants them to do anyway.

They also discuss the fact that if either one of their sides knew about the "arrangement" it would be abysmal for them. We know what eventually happens to Crowley later on in the future, when he saves Elspeth from attempting to take her life.

I think the one thing that is key with this part of their history, is how much concern Aziraphale has started to show for Crowley. Even though he denies ever knowing Crowley, he is nonetheless worried about his wellbeing. These are the early stages of their relationship, with Aziraphale voicing his distress at the possibility of Crowley being destroyed if caught by his superiors.

During their conversation, Hamlet is playing on stage, and Aziraphale loves this play. Unfortunately, it's not that popular and it concerns him very much. They then have their coin toss to see who get to do the good and bad thing in Edinburgh.

Poor Aziraphale loses that toss and get stuck having to go there. At this point, Aziphale hears Shakespeare bemoan the fact that no likes Hamlet. This is where Aziraphale gives Crowley the, what has been called, his "heart eyes" looks. I call it the, "oh please my dear, can you do this for me?" look and Crowley just can't say no to him.

It doesn't even take him a second to agree to his angel's request, so much for putting up a fight. He never has a chance, Crowley already has it bad and doesn't even know it.

I will say, that to me, Crowley fell in love first with Aziraphale. The debate is, when, at Eden or during Job minisode? We can debate that forever, but in the end, he is already in love.

I adore how happy it makes Aziraphale, when his demon capitulates to his wishes. Look at him, he is beaming with happiness, how can anyone not love him.

Crowley makes it like, yea, whatever, but you can't tell me he wasn't smiling as he walked away, knowing that he made his angel happy.

Anyway, I love this whole minisode as I said earlier. It is adorable in their interactions over one of my favorite plays. Plus, Elizabethan Crowley is just gorgeous!

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Robert Dudley (cabinet miniature of Sir Robert Dudley [1574-1649], English explorer and cartographer, self-styled Earl of Warwick and Leicester and Duke of Northumberland) Artist: Nicholas Hilliard (English, 1547-1619) Date: 1590s Genre: portraiture Period: Tudor (Elizabethan) Medium: watercolor on parchment Dimensions: 18.5 cm (7.2 in) high Location: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

[voluptuarian]

13 days of witches: witch of the Elizabethan court

“Tis magick, magick, that has ravisht me.” — Christopher Marlowe

To be a courtier is to dance on tightropes-- a witch among courtiers must manage the trick while dangling between Scylla and Charybdis. Witchcraft is commonplace, from the smallest acts to the largest, ubiquitous in the grandest homes and the humblest-- even Elizabeth herself keeps a court astronomer on hand-- but it is also a crime, one which sent the queen's own mother to her grave. But Anne Boleyn was innocent-- she, however, is not, and guilt equips her well. Nature has already armed her with the courtier's best weapons-- a light step, keen instincts, and a surplus of both charm and wit-- and her magic wields them as sword and shield. She knows when to drop a honeyed word in the right ear or a honeyed potion in the right cup; how to warm a hateful heart and kill a hurtful rumor; she knows the steps to every galliard and gavotte, just as she knows the stage of the moon and the positions of the planets, the hours and days ripe with good fortune and laden with ill-luck. Perhaps she does dance suspended between the whirlpool and the mouth of hell, but what does it matter when the dance is such a joyous one, and she so suited to it? Even if she falls, she knows she'll find a way to land on her feet.

[ineffableclassics]

A play in two acts, with two fools, two hearts, and two sets of stockings (with garters).

Or, due to a silly wager, Crowley goes with Aziraphale to see the first public performance of Twelfth Night in 1602, and gets fucked a lot while wearing yellow stockings.

Words: 11,039

Status: Complete

Rating: Explicit

@kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon

Art Credit: Olivia, Maria and Malvolio from "Twelfth Night," Act III, Scene iv by Johann Heinrich Ramberg

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54956941/chapters/139311484

[qwilanikan]

I’m quite pleased with this one! And the outfits were very fun to draw!

[thebeautifulbook]

Embroidered book cover for Christopherson’s HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA owned by Queen Elizabeth,

[descendinight]

🐛Draft - Something Interesting In The Reverend’s Room！

[elephantlovemedleys]

period drama appreciation week 2024

favourite relationship(s): elizabeth i and robert dudley

[bookmuseum]

[REVIEW] Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

5/5 stars (★★★★★)

"Come, I think hell's a fable." (II.i.128)

Aside from surface-level knowledge of Faustian contracts and an admittedly fervid appreciation for Yana Toboso's Black Butler manga (:3), I didn't know a lot about the myth of Faust and the history behind its many retellings, -- nor have I read the Thomas Mann version(s) or the Goethe plays -- so I did a lot of preliminary research before I actually dove right into it. The 1604 play ended up being one of the funniest things I've ever read in a long time. For that reason, this review is extremely short, unserious, and mostly just me reviewing the Broadview second edition edited by Michael Keefer that I used as a copy.

Basically, I regret reading Doctor Faustus for the first time with Broadview because, while it was informative and incredibly detailed (I'm a little concerned for Keefer's scholastic sanity), I wish I just read the play on its own with few to little annotations and context. I liked reading about Christopher Marlowe in the introduction. I had zero idea that homeboy was a spy and got murdered for it at only 29 years of age. I wish we knew more about him, I would've loved to read more about what crazy shit he got into as a political dissident in Elizabethan England. That sounds so kickass.

The story of DF itself is really short (shorter than most Shakespeare plays). Keefer's annotations and footnotes took up 70% of the space on the pages, so I'd read about 20ish lines then spend the next 5-10 minutes reading over what he had to say about them in painstaking detail. I read every annotation! Broadview prides itself on being exhaustive for the sake of maximized education, which I commend, but I think I underestimated myself when I thought I needed this much context to "understand" this classic play. If you know the basics of Greek/Roman mythology, post-Lutheran Christian doctrine, and Elizabethan English society + playwrights in general, (so essentially what they teach you about Shakespeare in high school) I'd say you're solid and don't really need the Broadview text (unless you want to really get into it).

For me, I just wanted to read the play casually so I didn't pay too much attention to the footnotes and forced myself not to go too deep down the research rabbit hole. I unfortunately forgot an important rule with literature in that a text's reputation is never as solemnly serious as it ever is in popular culture, so don't let it "scare" you into thinking you don't know anything going into it. I'm not an Elizabethan scholar nor do I really like Early Modern English literature all that much, so I thought I needed to know more than what I already did. I was wrong! I could've read DF when I was just starting to get into classic lit in Grade 9 and I still would've enjoyed it as is. It's not this impregnable, impossible to fathom text. It's so silly!

I get that this play is a tragedy and everything, but it genuinely did make me laugh out loud a handful of times. I was a graduate student too and, while I don't have my PhD in divinity, I kinda get how Faustus ended up summoning the devil in his college dorm/study one day for the fuck of it. Like yeah, what the hell, sure. When the iconic Mephistopheles shows up, Faust basically tells him he looks too ugly for his eyes so he has to change into a more palatable form -- and Mephi does it! That was so funny. I ship Faustus and Mephi, I don't care. I don't wanna go into it too much, but just know I'm not alone in my delusion and have spent a significant amount of time going back and forth between reading what people had to say about #Faustupheles on the internet and actually reading the play. I had a grand old time, I'll have you know.

Anyway, I opted out of reading Appendix C and D because they seemed boring to me so I can't judge them or their merit here. Appendix A and B, I did read though. I really enjoyed Keefer's inclusion of excerpts from The Historie of the damnable life, and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus (1592) (or The English Faust Book AKA TEFB) edited by John Henry Jones in 1994. I read it immediately after finishing the main play and was delighted the second time around looking back on the plot (although there were some changes in the TEFB that didn't hit as well).

[trippingonair92]

i want to see Shakespeare in Elizabethan styled drag with southern accents.

1st, i believe that Shakespeare is written in the spirit of Drag. not in the "men played the women's parts" sort of way but in the "im serving drama and cunt and this is MY STAGE" kind of way. it is, ultimately, the more historically accurate way to go. WS was just... honestly that man would have lived for RuPaul and any other event based in drag.

because, im sorry, but Hamlet? a midsummers night? Twelfth mother fucking Night? all of it just screams Drag. the glitz the glam the makeup... its just... needed.

2nd, southern accents. all southern accents. not the cultivated kind, the REAL kind. i want the thickest most Alabamian, Texan, Appalachian, Louisianan, Creole, Cajun, etc, accents that exist to be on display.

3rd, it HAS to be done with Tudor and Elizabethan style. like, do that and make it as risqué and glam as you want but like, those puffy as fuck hot pant things? feathers in hats? the giant lace collars? they just lend themselves to the whole air of the "southern drag Shakespeare" and round it all out beautifully.