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[Katriona]

@JohnM

So, that means there was actually some historical accuracy to Shakespeare in Love? I always assumed that subplot was just added to supply some conflict, but I stand corrected.

That would make QEI’s appearance in the film an anachronism, though; she died in 1603.

[Beware_of_Doug]

“T’looks like 'un rain”? What’s he, trying out for a role on All Creatures Great and Small?

[Marley23]

@Katriona

That would make QEI’s appearance in the film an anachronism, though; she died in 1603.

The movie is set in about 1590. It’s before that law was passed, but Northern Piper is saying they had political power before that.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Beware of Doug

“T’looks like 'un rain”? What’s he, trying out for a role on All Creatures Great and Small?

I have to admit, I don’t get the line. What’s it mean?

[Yllaria]

I assumed it was just Bucky coming up with a stupid line.

Double entendres remind me of a joke that my Dad said go Bob Hope switched off the radio. It may be an Urban Legend, but Dad sure enjoyed it. It doesn’t work as well in print, though.
“It was Christmas Eve, and everyone was feeling Merry. Until she got offended and went home.”

[Hometownboy]

Then everybody jumped for Joy.

[Valgard]

@fiddlesticks

Well, if I had Tiger Woods’ millions I think I would continue to wash my own balls, but I wouldn’t mind hiring someone to wash my hair everyday…preferably a young lady not shy about nakedness.

I think if Mr. Woods wants someone to wash his hair (or anything else) he’s happy enough. Photos of Missus Woods (SFW albeit with one bikini photo):

http://www.the-planets.com/star-biography/Elin-Nordegren-Biography.htm

[Northern_Piper]

@Marley23

The movie is set in about 1590. It’s before that law was passed, but Northern Piper is saying they had political power before that.

Yes, that’s what I was getting at. For example, the reason that the theatres were located in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames, was that Southwark was not within the City of London, so the London Council’s by-laws didn’t apply, saving the theatres the headache of dealing with the London Council.

Eventually, in 1596, the London Council actually banned public performances of plays in the City, as described on this web-site:

The Theaters are banned from London City Limits

The objections to the theaters escalated and the Church, London Officials and respectable citizens raised even more objections to the theatres. Theaters were not only used to show plays. There was gambling and in some there was even bear baiting. Not only were there objections about the bawdy nature of some of the plays, the rise in crime but there was also the real risk of the crowded theatres encouraging the spread of the plague. The reputation of actors was remained disreputable, a legacy from the rogues and vagabonds who had previously roamed the country putting on plays and their classification as “vagabonds and sturdy beggars,” in a 1572 act of Parliament. In December 1574 the Common Council of London, under the influences of puritanical factions, issued a statement describing:

" great disorder rampant in the city by the inordinate haunting of great multitudes of people, especially youth, to plays, interludes, namely occasion of frays and quarrels, evil practices of incontinency in great inns having chambers and secret places adjoning to their open stages and galleries, inveigling and alluring of maids, especially of orphans and good citizens’ children under age, to privy and unmeet contracts, the publishing of unchaste, uncomely, and unshamefast speeches and doings . . . uttering of popular, busy, and seditious matters, and many other corruptions of youth and other enormities . . . [Thus] from henceforth no play, comedy, tragedy, interlude, not public show shall be openly played or showed within the liberties of the City . . . and that no innkeeper, tavernkeeper, nor other person whatsoever within the liberties of this City shall openly show or play . . . any interlude, comedy, tragedy, matter, or show which shall not be first perused and allowed . . . "

The outcry continued and grew so much that in 1596 London’s authorities banned the public presentation of plays and all theaters within the city limits of London. All theaters located in the City were forced to move to the South side of the River Thames.

The Rose, which was the theatre featured in Shakespeare in Love, was the first built in Southwark, prior to the city edict, as outlined here: History of the Rose Theatre.

[KneadToKnow]

Best. Hijack. Ever.

[Northern_Piper]

It’s an extract from my Master’s thesis: From the Bard to Bucky: Tracing the Influence of Shakespeare’s Appearence-Reality Themes on Darby Conley’s Imagery.