Re: Elizabethan T.V.

["Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>]

Poster: "Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>

Lughbec wrote:
>
> Rhian wrote:
> > 
> > Well... I actually broke the tv myself.  A word to the wise:  DON'T ever try
> > to carry a tv and vcr while wearing Elizabethan.  It's a BAD idea.
> > 
> Not that I am an expert, but I do not believe that Elizabethan 
> women carried their T.V.s while wearing their gowns...
> Elizabethan men were not as encumbered in their garments 
> therefore, that job went to them.  No?  Am I confused again???:^)

You are only slightly confused.
An Elizabethan woman wearing doublet-and-hose instead of a gown
(e.g., Rosalind in "As You Like It") would *be* a TV.

OTOH, if "TV" stands for "television" instead of "transvestite",
the Elizabeth model was too big to be carried by anyone; it
had to be built in place.  It consisted of a dark chamber with
a mirror and a lens in the ceiling to focus distant sights onto
a table.

-- Alfredo el Bufon
  
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