Miss Jayne D. : Tales From Her Crypt: 2014

11.26.2014

Feed Your Head

November 26, 1865:
The first edition of Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland is published.

Crimson Peak (2015)

Tom Hiddleston in Crimson Peak (2015)

Crimson Peak (2015)
director: Guillermo del Toro
cast: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam
trailer

11.17.2014

The Elizabethan Age

November 17, 1558:
The Elizabethan Age begins.
Just as Queen Mary I dies, Elizabeth I becomes Queen until her death in 1603.
Under her reign England becomes a major world power in every respect.

The English dominated at sea, with Elizabeth encouraging voyages of discovery, such as Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world and Sir Walter Raleigh’s expeditions to the North American coast.

Sir Walter Raleigh's ship
The Ark Royal (1587)
illustrator: Claes Janszoon Visscher

This "Golden Age" represented the apogee of the English Renaissance and saw the flowering of poetry, music and literature. The era is most famous for theatre, as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of theatre.

Conjectural reconstruction of The Globe Theatre by C. Walter Hodges based on archeological and documentary evidence

Burghley House, Peterborough
England’s Greatest Elizabethan House- 35 major rooms on the ground and 1st floors, 80 or more lesser rooms.

Needlework bag and pin-cushion (allegedly) of Queen Elizabeth I, English, 16th C. In the collection of the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, Great Britain

Elizabethan Fencing Doublet c.1580
featuring a protruding peascod waist Western European,
Leather silk linen cotton

Collar from the textile collection at Hardwick Hall. - 1592

Pair of mittens, c. 1600 - Embroidered in England, said to have been a gift from Elizabeth I to her maid of honor, Margaret Edgcumbe (1560-1648). Crimson velvet, white satin, embroidered with silver gilt thread, colored silks, beads, and spangles. IMAGE: Elizabethan gloves at the V&A Museum.

Hot poking stick used to press Elizabethan ruffles.

more:
Royal Collection

10.23.2014

Utica Zombie Walk 2014

Despite some tremendous set-backs...the show must go on- and it did!

The 6th Annual Utica Zombie Walk was a success.

We got there after a mountain of trouble- and rocked the hell out of it!
We had yet to perform with so many young ones before, they were an enthusiastic crowd you could only wish for. I hope it sustains them until they are a bit older. Entertaining an audience with such diversity was a pleasure.
I am very grateful to those who helped us carry it off- a last minute drummer, a new bassist, friends and family that helped us with details that could not go unlooked. The past week was a lemon...we got lemonade.
- Miss Jayne