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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:
--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.)
"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.)
The (original) Inspiration: LOLCAT Macros
Sundry Other Good Links
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)
- English Broadside Ballad Archive
- Shakespeare in Quarto
- Rare Book Room
- EEBO Text Creation Partnership
- Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image
- Pepys' Diary
- Old Baily Online
- The English Emblem Book Project
- Shakespeare Searched
- Shakespearean Insulter
- Literary Makeovers!!!
- Tyrannosaurus Art
- Book-A-Minute
- Married to the Sea
- Sarah on Twitter
Blog Archive
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2007
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October
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- This Horyble Monster, 1531
- The Witch of Edmonton, 1658
- Heraclitus Dream, 1642
- A rehearsall both straung and true, of hainous and...
- See, heer, malignants foolerie retorted on them pr...
- Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on the late Qu...
- The Lineage of Locusts, 1641 (aka UNICORN VS. POPE)
- The Sucklington faction: or, (Sucklings) Roaring B...
- Puss, my apple against thy mouse ile lay, 1646
- A Declaration of a Strange and Wonderfull Monster,...
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October
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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...
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...
About the Author
- Sarah Redmond
- Erstwhile PhD student in Renaissance studies, then I got an MLS. LOL Manuscripts is how I amuse myself as I scour EEBO for research. I'm pretty confident that it will be accepted as my dissertation.
4 comments:
I think we all know that unicorns are simply the goats of the devil/Saracens.
Then again, I'm English, so we don't have a whole lot of respect for the pope, either. Especially not the ones who look like Darth Sidious.
I like to think that the Unicorn and the Pope used to be in love, but things turned sour and now they hate each other, but can't let each other go either.
Just tell Urban VIII that you love him, Unicorn!
Oh, and Doug, you are limited to one (1) Star Wars reference for the entirety of your commenting on lolmanuscripts career.
Trust me, I don't think you'll have to worry about any further Star Wars references from me in lolmanuscripts, or any other context, for that matter.
I blame the previous one on the fact that I was intoxicated at the time I made that comment, which is also why it is semi-coherent.
In addition to the Star Wars reference, I will also promise not to post additional drunken lolmanuscript comments.
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