Here's the best one of them all....
21 Things Only Kids Who Grew Up In The 1590s Will Understand
Born, like other comic book characters, out of an otherwise trivial but life-changing animal bite, the Rabid Librarian seeks out strange, useless facts, raves about real and perceived injustices, and seeks to meet her greatest challenge of all--her own life.
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Showing posts with label Tudor England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tudor England. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
The Tudor coroners' reports sound fascinating
(but that may just be me, the history major)
Tudor coroners' records give clue to 'real Ophelia' for Shakespeare
Tudor coroners' records give clue to 'real Ophelia' for Shakespeare
An Oxford historian has found evidence of a story that could be the real-life inspiration for Shakespeare's tragic character, Ophelia.
Dr Steven Gunn has found a coroner's report into the drowning of a Jane Shaxspere in 1569.
The girl, possibly a young cousin of William Shakespeare, had been picking flowers when she fell into a millpond near Stratford upon Avon.
Dr Gunn says there are "tantalising" links to Ophelia's drowning in Hamlet.
A four-year research project, carried out by Oxford University academics, has been searching through 16th century coroners' reports.
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