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LaHi presents: Seriously Trivial As a production of “The Maid’s Tragedy” was running late in 1661, t

LaHi presents: Seriously Trivial

As a production of “The Maid’s Tragedy” was running late in 1661, the manager had said, to explain the delay, that “The Queen is not shav’d yet.”

During the Monarchy Restoration, women started to play female roles in the theatre. One of the last males to take on female roles was Edward Kynaston, who took on the role as The Queen in “The Maid’s Tragedy” in 1661, King Charles II had come earlier than expected to a show of the play, and he began to get impatient as to why the play wasn’t starting yet. The manager, who thought that honesty was the best policy, explained to his majesty that “the Queen is not shav’d yet.”

Sources:

Crofton, Ian. History without the boring bits. London, Quercus, 2015.

Haggerty, G. E. ““The Queen was not shav’d yet”: Edward Kynaston and the Regendering of the Restoration Stage.” The Eighteenth Century, vol. 50 no. 4, 2009, pp. 309-326. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/ecy.0.0045

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So I doubt anybody is gonna be half as excited as me about this but brawling juggernaut gold-hearted

So I doubt anybody is gonna be half as excited as me about this but brawling juggernaut gold-hearted sexworker Big Lize (Jan 1848) was created BEFORE brawling juggernaut fireman Mose the Bowery B'hoy (Feb 1848). They later became a couple in the Mose Theatrical Universe.

I had always seen Lize presented through the Mose’s girlfriend lens, but she was first the muscle in Ned Buntline’s MYSTERIES AND MISERIES OF NEW YORK, a popular melodrama which was ripped off by the play A GLANCE AT NEW YORK, which introduced Mose.

Buntline, the guy whose plot was lifted for first GLANCES and then NEW YORK AS IT IS (same plot, but bigger part for the hugely popular Mose character), ended up writing a ton of the Mose sequels (and, I think, their novelizations). Lize had died a noble death at the end of MYSTERIES AND MISERIES, but nobody ever let a popular character death stop that character from coming back in the sequels, now, did it?


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The Prince and the Actress: When Florence Met George

Two portraits of entertainer Florence Mills. Printed on front: "Florence Mills."

© E. Azalia Hackley Collection/Detroit Public Library

Though African American performers dazzled British society and its royals since the days of Walker and Williams(who brought their minstrel revues to English shores in the early 1900s), and performers like Aida Overton Walker, Sissieretta Jones, and others were viewed as the epitome of Black glamour–there was something different about Florence…

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