Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Don't forget......that the Elizabethan theatre was an extremely low-brow affair, plays being aired alongside bear-baiting etc. Both theatre attendance and acting were viewed as distinctly down market, with aristocrats who loved watching plays sometimes attending in disguise to protect their reputations - the actors would most certainly not have spoken in RP.
Whilst Shakespeare was reputedly from Stratford, his actors were unlikely to have been, seeing as the theatres in which they were shown were all in and around Shoreditch, Lahndahn - so the likelihood of cockernee actors is quite high. "Is this a fackin' dagger I see before me?"
*capers off with a riddle-me-ree and a hey-nonny-no and an unfunny pun about the Earl of Gloucester's stockings*
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jun 2008, 13:55,
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