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.
Who was the real power? The Captain? or Tenille?
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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"
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.
Vonnie K - Nov 10, 2005 12:23:12 pm PST #8609 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
It was in that period links page! It's wrong. (What, erroenous info on the internet? Who'd have thought?)
OK, so James was between Queen Elizabeth and Cromwell, then came Charles II of the Restoration with the Plague and the Great Fire. OK, this makes more sense because I've read Rose Tremain's "Restoration" (later adapted to a movie with Sam Neill playing Charles II, Polly Walker, a.k.a. Atia of Julii, as his mistress, plus Robert Downy Jr. and David Thewlis--hey, I'm even on topic!) and it had both the Fire and the Plague in it.
Gris - Nov 10, 2005 12:53:20 pm PST #8610 of 10002
Hey. New board.
I discovered a Willow/Legolas vid to My Immortal.
I... need to see this. It sounds like the funniest thing on earth.