This is hostessquickly calling, except not quite -- it seems you've coaxed her journal's owner out of a mountain of books, stockpiled precariously just in time for exams. While your question is completely lacking in boorishness, it compensates with the element of surprise -- I must admit that it was rather startling to find your comment sitting in my inbox!
Without further ado, the source of your amusement is a recent creative project of mine, accomplished with the help of a friend. Instead of your garden variety snorefest research essay, the professor of our Topics in Mediaeval Literature class gave us the option of exploring the core issues of the course creatively.
A few submitted boardgames. One industrious individual handed in a painted diptych. Inveterate geeks that we are, we decided to adapt Richard II and 1 Henry IV to the format of LJ: hence theboarshead and its sister community, englelond.
I could bore you with the questions of legitimacy, historiography and performativity that we attempted to address, but since brevity is the soul of lingerie your
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Apologies for scribbling on your assignment! I figured you were students of some kind. I would have guessed students of history or students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Is there a reason you decided to use the (amusingly anachronistic and melodramatised) works of the Bard as the crux of your project?
Re: I could bore you with questions of legitimacy: Bah! I may not be an actual historian, but I love me some Britannic history (especially when it's violent and dramatic and politically charged). I am a member of the communities thisengland and plantagenesta, both of which are so tragically nerdy, they should be illegal.
I s'pose the most effective way to summarise how it is I came across your little slice of recreated history is to explain that I myself am a student of theatre and have portrayed Harry Monmouth on three occasions in two eras of his Shakespearean existence. I played his younger self at particularly angsty tumultuous times in my (earlier) youth and am more than slightly attached to his personage and the speculation surrounding it.
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I believe that I owe you a Manningtree ox of an apology, seeing that communications from my side of the cliff abruptly went lemming. In my defence, however, I plead temporary insanity brought on by the appalling amount of work that the last few weeks of school -- hell, undergrad -- latched onto my ankles. Coupled with moving out and taking care of grad school paperwork, it's enough to make anyone hang themselves in their garters, heir-apparent or otherwise.
Now that I've just returned from vacation, however, I'm free to indulge myself in all manner of nerdiness, be it tragical-comical-historical-pastoral. (All awful Shakespeare jokes shall be henceforth canned, I promise.) With regards to studying three-quarters of the Henriad in my mediaeval literature class, I see your puzzlement and raise you an ineloquent explanation. Rather than confine the class to a certain period of literature bound by dates and style, the professor chose instead to focus on a watershed moment of mediaeval history -- namely the deposition of Richard II
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So, hi. I followed the name-link-thingy-whatsits from your comment on my profile on Genderfork (ooh, just realized I forgot to specify who I am, I'm Rin, by the way, hello), and found myself here. Now that I am here, I have a couple things to say: a) I concur, I think we are twins; b) I am slightly in love with your username and the fact that your journal is in French (despite the other fact that I studied it for five years and still totally blow at it); c) I cannot remember what c) was because it's late and I'm rambly. But anyway. You seem pretty awesome (also I, egotist that I am, like people who are my twins), and I thought, what the hell, I haven't done the friends-on-the-Internet thing for a bit. So, all stalkage and rambling aside, friends?
Stalkage and rambling is more or less 'net-friends are limited to, no? But I agree wholeheartedly and apologize for the delayed response. I'll add you straight away; you've been forwarned and fore-exposed to my long and unexplained absences.
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Without further ado, the source of your amusement is a recent creative project of mine, accomplished with the help of a friend. Instead of your garden variety snorefest research essay, the professor of our Topics in Mediaeval Literature class gave us the option of exploring the core issues of the course creatively.
A few submitted boardgames. One industrious individual handed in a painted diptych. Inveterate geeks that we are, we decided to adapt Richard II and 1 Henry IV to the format of LJ: hence theboarshead and its sister community, englelond.
I could bore you with the questions of legitimacy, historiography and performativity that we attempted to address, but since brevity is the soul of lingerie your ( ... )
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Re: I could bore you with questions of legitimacy:
Bah! I may not be an actual historian, but I love me some Britannic history (especially when it's violent and dramatic and politically charged). I am a member of the communities thisengland and plantagenesta, both of which are so tragically nerdy, they should be illegal.
I s'pose the most effective way to summarise how it is I came across your little slice of recreated history is to explain that I myself am a student of theatre and have portrayed Harry Monmouth on three occasions in two eras of his Shakespearean existence. I played his younger self at particularly angsty tumultuous times in my (earlier) youth and am more than slightly attached to his personage and the speculation surrounding it. ( ... )
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Now that I've just returned from vacation, however, I'm free to indulge myself in all manner of nerdiness, be it tragical-comical-historical-pastoral. (All awful Shakespeare jokes shall be henceforth canned, I promise.) With regards to studying three-quarters of the Henriad in my mediaeval literature class, I see your puzzlement and raise you an ineloquent explanation. Rather than confine the class to a certain period of literature bound by dates and style, the professor chose instead to focus on a watershed moment of mediaeval history -- namely the deposition of Richard II ( ... )
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I'm really not that interesting.
But I'll add you if you'll return the honor.
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I followed the name-link-thingy-whatsits from your comment on my profile on Genderfork (ooh, just realized I forgot to specify who I am, I'm Rin, by the way, hello), and found myself here. Now that I am here, I have a couple things to say: a) I concur, I think we are twins; b) I am slightly in love with your username and the fact that your journal is in French (despite the other fact that I studied it for five years and still totally blow at it); c) I cannot remember what c) was because it's late and I'm rambly.
But anyway. You seem pretty awesome (also I, egotist that I am, like people who are my twins), and I thought, what the hell, I haven't done the friends-on-the-Internet thing for a bit. So, all stalkage and rambling aside, friends?
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