Period Jarrings

["Terry L. Neill" <Neilltl@ptsc.slg.eds.com>]

Poster: "Terry L. Neill" <Neilltl@ptsc.slg.eds.com>

Alfredo el Bufon wrote:
>It's the flip side of another (untenable)
>theory I have, that something considered jarringly modern
>(e.g. Coca-Cola in red-and-white cans) would be justifibly
>frown upon at events EVEN if they were thoroughly documented
>as existing in the Period.


Now this is another thread altogether!  (Notice, I changed the Subject.)

There are lots of things that are very perfectly period that seem so modern
we dislike them.


I remember watching The Flying Karamozov Brothers doing Shakespeare's
Commedy of Errors.  Amidst all the Shakespearean dialogue were horribly
funny OOP stunts.  There was also a line about one of the servant twins
being beat up or bounced back and forth and complaining of being treated
like a football.

!! think I.  A *football!!??*  But sure enough, there in my Complete
Shakespeare were those very words.  In fact, ALL the dialogue that wasn't
spoken to the audience out of character was from the play.

Tiffany and Crystal are period names.

Car is a period word - and it even means roughly the same thing we mean by
car. (Without, of course, the internal combustion engine. :)

Some of the more vivid colors and tacky plaids are period.

You get my drift.

I don't know about *justifiably* frowned upon at an event.  But certainly
jarring in that they are thought of in a 20th century context.

Personally, I go more for educating as to the periodness of such things
instead of frowning them out of existance.

        - Anarra
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