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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.
2 comments:
Personally, I thought the term "roundhead" had more to do with hairstyle than having hydrocephalus, but, as this illustration clearly shows, I have a lot to learn about 17th century English politics.
I blame it on a public school education and the constant influence of Meghan's "Romish-rubbish."
I finally get it! You make up the captions for the manuscripts.
This one made me laugh out loud.
Also, I think I'm in love with Doug.
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