LOL Manuscripts!: The Most Noble, Ancient, and learned Playe, called the Philosophers Game invented for the Honest Recreation of Students, 1563 (Redux)

Sunday, September 23, 2007

The Most Noble, Ancient, and learned Playe, called the Philosophers Game invented for the Honest Recreation of Students, 1563 (Redux)

(Special Scrabble edition)

2 comments:

Doug said...: Ha! "Cheezburger" would be an awesome Scrabulous word. Lolspeak should be allowed!; September 23, 2007 at 10:29 AM
meghan said...: LOLManuscripts have far surpassed Married to the Sea. I LUV.; September 23, 2007 at 11:08 AM

ye olde Mission Statement

Many of you may know of the Internet phenomenon that is LOLCats. Slightly less of you may know how crazy/awesome early modern woodcut illustrations and frontispieces can be. But what joins these two disparate worlds? Well, it may surprise you to know how popular LOL-ing was in the Renaissance. To wit:

"The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling, / From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause; / Cries 'Excellent!'"
--Troilus and Cressida (1.3.163-5)

Shakespearean proof you can't refute! Welcome to LOL Manuscripts!
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(P.S. I know they aren't all "manuscripts," but LOL Early Modern Printed Materials didn't have the same ring to it. LOLNomenclature! Let it go.)

Hamlet (an LOLCat Translation)

2 BE, OR NOT 2 BE : DAT IZ TEH QUESHUN:
WHETHR TIS NOBLR IN DA MIND 2 SUFFR
TEH SLINGS AN ARROWS OV OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE,
OR 2 TAEK ARMS AGAINST SEA OV TROUBLEZ, AN BY OPPOSIN END DEM?
2 DYE: 2 SLEEP;
NO MOAR; AN BY SLEEP 2 SAY WE END
TEH HART-AYKE AN TEH THOUSAND NACHURAL SHOCKZ
DAT FLESH IZ HEIR 2, TIS CONSUMMASHUN
DEVOUTLY 2 BE WISHD. 2 DYE, 2 SLEEP;
2 SLEEP: PERCHANCE 2 DREAM: AY, THARS TEH RUB;
4 IN DAT SLEEP OV DEATH WUT DREAMS CUD COME
WHEN WE HAS SHUFFLD OFF DIS MORTAL COIL,
MUST GIV US PAUSE: THARS TEH RESPECT
DAT MAKEZ CALAMITY OV SO LONG LIFE...

Sunday, September 23, 2007

The Most Noble, Ancient, and learned Playe, called the Philosophers Game invented for the Honest Recreation of Students, 1563 (Redux)

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ye olde Mission Statement

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