henchminion ([info]henchminion) wrote,
@ 2008-02-11 21:36:00
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Exit, ----ed by a bear
I think this one belongs in the medieval weirdness collection.

"One admired eleventh-century ludus histrionum (play performed by actors) is reported to have featured a tame bear, an actor's naked membra and honey!"

--John Southworth, The English Medieval Minstrel, p. 7, citing Richard Axton, European Drama of the Early Middle Ages, p. 18.


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[info]eleanoreight
2008-02-12 03:03 am UTC (link)
. . . oh god, my brain.

Is this the medieval equivalent of a donkey show?

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[info]schizmatic
2008-02-12 12:22 pm UTC (link)
That certainly makes all those ecclesiastical condemnations of actors a bit easier to understand...

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[info]henchminion
2008-02-12 09:01 pm UTC (link)
It does!

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