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Why do you ask, Gingy? What could the fabulous Tim Curry, Richard O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick et al. possibly have to do with Shakespeare, the only thing you're meant to be thinking about right now? OK, nothing except for that rip-roaring song Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me, which was running perversely through my head all afternoon today, because today was the day we saw -- and TOUCHED -- The Books. Like: one of the Folger's 79 First Folios. And a Second Folio that was censored during The Inquisition. And an indenture indicating the sale of a house in Stratford by Mr. Hercules Underhill to (of course) Mr. William Shakespeare (OK, that was in mylar, but that's all that stood between me & the dusty possible remnants of William Shakespeare today). And did I mention the actual manuscript (1st draft) of James I's essay on Demonology? Like, I touched something that James I held in his haggisy Scottish hands!! I texted Kitty that I was freaking out a little, and she replied "Allowed." Thanks, KWil!
Speaking of which, I have to get in bed & finish Kitty's masterwork, so I'll leave you again with some photos of my day. They just this week started allowing digital photography inside the library -- oh frabjous day!
The indentures...so called because of those indented cuts along the paper. Isn't English FUN?!
The hand of the Inquisitor at work! See the blacked out lines on the left side of the page? Yup, that's him. There's also an entire play missing (Measure for Measure); maybe because the bad guy in that one, Angelo, is the one trying to uphold the fiercest kinds of moral laws (like "off with your head for knocking up your fiancee!")...that is, until he falls head over ramrod-stiff spine for a novice on the EVE of her initiation into the strictest order of nuns she can find, and offers to free the knocker-up (her brother) if she sleeps with him. Ha ha! Onto the pyre with that one, says the good friar!
A family tree in a history of Scotland by John Leslie, showing (my friend) James I at the top...and good old Banquo at the root. Just like in Act 4 of Macbeth! Gulp!
And you'll have to turn your computer sideways for this one, because no, Martha, I still don't have horizontal & vertical quite mastered in this mystical world of photography. These are my Folger buddies. We like velvet.
James I's "haggisy Scottish hands?" I, and all of my Scottish relatives, are offended by this remark.
ReplyDeleteLurve the idea of Kenneth B. poster on dorm room wall. How long are you going to be there? maybe I can order one in time....