PURITANS!
They were there, but they were the ones ousted by the Restoration. Buh-bye! Go bug some other country with your freakass religiosity!
Oh wait, they did.
I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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DavidS - Nov 10, 2005 11:32:44 am PST #8599 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Vonnie K - Nov 10, 2005 11:35:02 am PST #8600 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Ahhh, so "The Restoration" was a period of its own (now I'm starting to vaguely remember.) I think the whole powdered wig and men wearing make-up and satin brocades had The Restoration and Georgian period confused or conflated in my mind.
I've just been to the Official Site of the film. Matthew M. is just so pretty. Brooood, pretty Matthew, brood! *sigh*
Frankenbuddha - Nov 10, 2005 11:35:54 am PST #8601 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So, what comes between Elizabethan and Georgian?
The Restoration. King James. Pirates.
Time-traveling humanoid aliens from the future and their psychic cats.
Wow, Gary Seven really did get around didn't he.
Jessica - Nov 10, 2005 11:38:04 am PST #8602 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
All I know about the Restoration was that Aphra Behn wasn't funny at all, and yet somehow I had to read The Rover in three separate English/Theatre classes.
tommyrot - Nov 10, 2005 11:41:30 am PST #8603 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Wow, Gary Seven really did get around didn't he.
Why else do you think the great tribble pestilence of 1842 never happened?
Vonnie K - Nov 10, 2005 11:42:45 am PST #8604 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Handy-dandy links to different British periods: [link]
The King James period is called "Stuart"? I've never heard of the term. (This is when the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London both broke out--King James was an unlucky bastard.) This sounds like the Restoration period, actually. Now, "Jacobean" sounds familiar.
Dana - Nov 10, 2005 11:44:41 am PST #8605 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The King James period is called "Stuart"? I've never heard of the term.
Oh, wait, I know this one. James became king after Elizabeth, right? Mary, Queen of Scots' son. So Elizabeth was the last of the Tudors, and he was part of the Stuart family. He was king of Scotland before he inherited the English throne.
sumi - Nov 10, 2005 11:48:32 am PST #8606 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Stuart after the family name. (Henry Vii - Elizabeth i are the Tudors.)
Sometimes the period is conflated: Tudor-Stuart.
Kathy A - Nov 10, 2005 12:00:20 pm PST #8607 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Last of the Stuarts was James II, deposed in favor of William of Orange, called in 'cause he was Protestant (James II followed his great-whatever Mary in being a Catholic). Then, a few decades later, they had to call in another foreigner (George I, a Hanoverian) due to Queen Anne being childless.
Nutty - Nov 10, 2005 12:04:29 pm PST #8608 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The King James period is called "Stuart"? I've never heard of the term. (This is when the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London both broke out--King James was an unlucky bastard.)
Wait, no, you're conflating more than one guy. The first Stuart king, James, was king during Shakespeare's lifetime; there was a king who got beheaded during the whole Oliver Cromwell thing (Charles I); and then there was the King Charles II of the Restoration, who was all Restoration-y because he got restored to the throne after the indiginity of the whole relative-beheading issue. And then Charles II's brother James II inherited from him.
It was during the Restoration (1666, in fact) that (a) Black Death; (b) Gret Fire of London; and (c) Newton's Annus Mirabilis. Busy year.