EN392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Latin, Titivillus
EN392 Lecture 6
Medieval Travel Literature and Ideas of the Other
Finishing Mankind
• New-guise representing the latest fashion with a broken noose around his neck
o Someone has tried to hang him
o The’e ee told to go off ad steal a horse eplaiig ^
o Make space for the sacred body – cult of relics
• Actors considered to be labourers (kind of) that can make a pretty good wage if known as
individual performers
o Strolling players considered socially the lowest of the low
▪ Conflated with thieves and prostitutes
• New-guise to be hung but the rope snaps and he escapes the hang man
o Begier’s luk
o Funny for him to get off by the skin of his teeth
o Childlike going of day to day desires
o Fashion going on forever – never dying but constantly changing
o Immortal aspects of mankind rather than real characters
o The noose acting as his badge
▪ Also the latest fashio
• Thievery of a horse or money is a hanging offence
o Most people did not die but received jail time instead but the threat was still there
• Farmers often had a cow, some sheep, and an ox
• Here horses represented wealth, freedom, social mobility, and travel
o Stealing a horse would raise your social standing to knighthood
o Law that lower class cannot ride horses because it meant they were trying to rise above
their social standing
• Class changing is possible, but this play is saying not to
• They tell Mankind that Mercy has been hanged for stealing a horse
• New-guise’s oose as a relic to cure his ringworm
• Titiillus’ hisperigs eig iterpreted as a isio
• Parody trial taking place – parodying the laws of the time => contract for the making of a new
coat for Mankind – cut & too big, re-cut & too small
o Important for Nowadays to be making new clothes for Mankind
o They can never fit Mankind because they will never know what he is because they are
soulless
o Trying to get him into their group by having him wear their clothes – badges
• Commercial & political world – saying contract is incompetent blotted writing
o Refer to the king as Edward the Nobody (reigning king) – probably a bad idea
• Mer’s speeh -769
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