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#WoodcutWednesday: “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Masquein’)” by T-Cramm (AKA Thomas Cranmer) ft. H-8 (AKA Henry VIII, AAKA Henry Tudor)

“Buy U A Drank (Shawty Masquein’)” by T-Cramm (ft. H-8) “Buy U A Drank (Shawty Masquein’)” by T-Cramm (ft. H-8) Shawty Masque (Yeah). T-Cramm. Damn. Shawty Masque. H-8. (Shawty). [H-8:] Ay, Ay, She masqueing. Ah, she masqueing. Shawty masquein’. [T-Cramm:] Mask your face, do the step, you can do it all by yourself. [Verse 1:] […]

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Posted in Silly Things, #WoodcutWednesday, Satire Tagged early modern, satire, English Renaissance, Henry VIII, Thomas Cranmer, T-Pain, Tudors

BREAKING: New royal bones found, this time near Dover. Move over Richard III, make way for Regan and Goneril!

Earlier this week, a study of the bones found buried beneath a Leicester car park rocked conventional Shakespeare scholarship. The DNA tests performed by the University of Leicester confirmed every early modernist’s darkest fears that Richard III was, indeed, the hunchback William Shakespeare depicted. As Randal Overtree, professor of early modern literature at the University […]

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Posted in Satire Tagged Channel 4, current events, Richard III, Richard III: The King in the Car Park, satire, Shakespeare 4 Comments

Navis Stultorum: The [GOP] Ship of Fools

Going “coverless” for far too long on Facebook, I set out on my own ship of Google images foolery, finally landing upon a woodcut from the title page of Sebastian Brant’s 1498 edition of the Stultifera Navis, the “Navis Stultorum” [The Ship of Fools]. (A version of the original can be found at Images from […]

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Posted in Politics, Satire Tagged Ship of Fools, woodcuts, #GOPShipOfFools, Barack Obama, early modern, Mitt Romney, political satire, politics, presidential politics, satire

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