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The earliest recorded personification of Christmas appears to be Ben Jonson's creation in Christmas his ... read more
discussion post on Fri, December 4, 2009 - 4:50 PM
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Was active in the Santa Barbara Renaissance Faire until it folded, currently active in the Ravens of Odin Viking reenactment group as the token Anglo Saxon, doing Danish Days at Solvang, Scandinavian Festival in 1000 Oaks. Making a day trip to SLO Faire in San Luis Obispo to put my Faire clothes to some use..
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Re: Peeve
(in Ren Faire History Snobs)
For whatever it's worth, Wikipedia gives the credit to Ben Jonson in 1616, seems like more his kind of character than Marlowe's:
History The earliest recorded personification of Christmas appears to be Ben Jonson's creation in Christmas his ... read more
Re: Thread invite
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I absolutely love this bit of trivia on Braveheart that someone called 'Bloke' posted on the trivia tribe:
In the 2007 humorous non-fictional historiography An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, author John O'Farrell notes that Braveheart co... read more discussion post on Wed, December 2, 2009 - 10:40 PM
Re: It never ends
(in Ren Faire History Snobs)
Well, he caught Jack the Ripper, got the girl, and they went back and lived happily ever after in Victorian times, so the timeline was already screwed up anyway ;-)
discussion post on Tue, November 24, 2009 - 10:06 PM
Re: need a word
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And in Shakespeare's King Lear Act II, Scene 2, we get one of one my favorite lines in all Shakespeare:
KENT: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking k... read more discussion post on Wed, November 18, 2009 - 4:49 PM
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