Drama in the Fens
Got a little testy there, yesterday, I see.
I'm feeling MUCH better now. I figure this is from getting some rest. Also, having the entire span of a night wherein I was not required to do annoying things, on account of being asleep.
In my paper, I tell you because one of you asked, I'm discussing professional entertainment in the Cambridgeshire fens, in the late middle ages and early modern period.
Here is my point: the great national troupes -- of actors certainly, but even musicians associated with royalty and high nobility -- did not visit the fens. Ever, in the case of the actors. Very rarely, in the case of the musicians. But the fens had professional entertainment, nonetheless -- fen entertainers, who traveled through the fens. Now, where is the post wherein I explained the fens. Oh, here it is. In case you need it.
So pretty much I'm saying that the fens, which were marginalized in England, took care of themselves in the area of entertainment. My entire point. By me. I have nice details, though. Also, no dialog.
And why do people such as I care about this? Because the great troupes went EVERYWHERE. All over the country. They didn't go through rural Wales, and places such as that -- places where the roads were too difficult to travel and the language was different. But they didn't go through the fens either, where the language was English and the travel was easy. That's how marginalized the fens were.
I go to York after that, where I may or may not be able to get on the Internet. I get to spend a day there, seeing the sights. This is my treat.
But around here, people are bailing out. Did I tell you I'm giving the last paper during the last session? Well, I am. So somebody might be there to hear it, but it might just be me and my two cohorts.
I like them. That'd be fine.
They're trying to get me to agree to read their papers for them, though. Word's gone out I do that sort of thing.
Gonna have to start charging for it.
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I just remembered that some of you have been confused as to what, exactly, stewed tea is. Well, you know how if you leave the teabag in the cup the tea gets stronger and stronger? Like that. The British Railway -- back before privatization and microwaves -- used to leave pots of tea on the burner all day long, and if you were really lucky, you'd catch a pot near or at the end of its lifetime. Oh, my. Now, THAT was tea.
True hard core addicts can boil it. That's going a BIT far for me. But probably not much.
I'm feeling MUCH better now. I figure this is from getting some rest. Also, having the entire span of a night wherein I was not required to do annoying things, on account of being asleep.
In my paper, I tell you because one of you asked, I'm discussing professional entertainment in the Cambridgeshire fens, in the late middle ages and early modern period.
Here is my point: the great national troupes -- of actors certainly, but even musicians associated with royalty and high nobility -- did not visit the fens. Ever, in the case of the actors. Very rarely, in the case of the musicians. But the fens had professional entertainment, nonetheless -- fen entertainers, who traveled through the fens. Now, where is the post wherein I explained the fens. Oh, here it is. In case you need it.
So pretty much I'm saying that the fens, which were marginalized in England, took care of themselves in the area of entertainment. My entire point. By me. I have nice details, though. Also, no dialog.
And why do people such as I care about this? Because the great troupes went EVERYWHERE. All over the country. They didn't go through rural Wales, and places such as that -- places where the roads were too difficult to travel and the language was different. But they didn't go through the fens either, where the language was English and the travel was easy. That's how marginalized the fens were.
I go to York after that, where I may or may not be able to get on the Internet. I get to spend a day there, seeing the sights. This is my treat.
But around here, people are bailing out. Did I tell you I'm giving the last paper during the last session? Well, I am. So somebody might be there to hear it, but it might just be me and my two cohorts.
I like them. That'd be fine.
They're trying to get me to agree to read their papers for them, though. Word's gone out I do that sort of thing.
Gonna have to start charging for it.
********************
I just remembered that some of you have been confused as to what, exactly, stewed tea is. Well, you know how if you leave the teabag in the cup the tea gets stronger and stronger? Like that. The British Railway -- back before privatization and microwaves -- used to leave pots of tea on the burner all day long, and if you were really lucky, you'd catch a pot near or at the end of its lifetime. Oh, my. Now, THAT was tea.
True hard core addicts can boil it. That's going a BIT far for me. But probably not much.
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