We shall throw roses! (Red ones, of course)

[pipistrellafelix]

Also, Happy Coronation day for Margaret of Anjou!* & it's the death day of Kit Marlowe (supposedly, of course. I'm still tempted to write some quasi-accurate historical bodice-ripper** about Kit faking his death & going to the continent, or the Americas, to spy for Queen Liz.)

*Now that my thesis is done, I'm really quite fond of her. Actually, I was fond of her before, but it's no longer tempered by the research version of the sword of Damocles, or something like that.

**Although I guess in his case it would be a codpiece-ripper?

Comments

[snorkmaiden.livejournal.com]

Joan of Arc was also burned today.

I'm not sure if a smiley face is appropriate, but I;'m using one anyway. :D

[elanor-two.livejournal.com]

Really? What a day...

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

I love the faked-his-death theory SO MUCH OHMYGOD. I even went to an authorship conference my freshman year (okay, it was free to students and in town so I didn't have to travel, but....) to play Marlovian Theorist For A Day. :D

[elanor-two.livejournal.com]

ME TOO.
& oh, that sounds like such fun...man, going to the history confy this quarter made me really want to go to a bunch of dorky conferences for the rest of my life. It was so much fun.

[bluetruedream.livejournal.com]

wait. kit marlowe was gay?
why did i not know that???

[elanor-two.livejournal.com]

Well, some of us crazy historians like to think so. Probably mostly because of that comment to the effect that anyone who doesn't like boys & drinking & theater is crazy.
(Also, being gay back then would mean nothing...they didn't think of it the way we do.)