tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post897376999855413164..comments2023-09-07T18:57:41.344+01:00Comments on Early Modern Whale: The piety of early modern shorthandDrRoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-18064878704069402392007-12-01T20:19:00.000+00:002007-12-01T20:19:00.000+00:00Dear Michael Mendle (if you look in again here) - ...Dear Michael Mendle (if you look in again here) - I just had the thought to enter 'shorthand' as a title search term on EEBO. What a mass of interesting books that finds! I must pursue some of them. RJB.DrRoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-27810438857506116412007-11-30T08:02:00.000+00:002007-11-30T08:02:00.000+00:00No, I was speaking lightly. There seem to me, as f...No, I was speaking lightly. There seem to me, as far as I have considered it, to be far easier ways for a 'bad quarto' to be put together - get a few of the actors to sling their written-out parts your way, etc. But I sense that I am getting way out of my depth in this area of the deployment of writing technologies... once clear of term I will chase up your kind references.DrRoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-38841612443355770732007-11-29T16:12:00.000+00:002007-11-29T16:12:00.000+00:00Do you place credence in Adele Davidson's speculat...Do you place credence in Adele Davidson's speculations about shorthand and the plays? Why?<BR/><BR/>As for inkpot and quill, see Frances Henderson, p. 45, in her piece on shorthand and the Putney debates in my book on the same. I disagree with her, somewhat, though, at least about the the facility of the best of the later 17c. practioners; for this see my "Prints of the Trials" in McElligott, Fear Exclusion and Revolution.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12159324755547916943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-26566418185229791982007-11-28T09:04:00.000+00:002007-11-28T09:04:00.000+00:00What a culture! I'd somehow always envisaged the s...What a culture! I'd somehow always envisaged the sermon text being completely under the control of the preacher - John Donne 'cribating and post-cribating' his text being too strong in my mind.<BR/>Of course, these devout shorthand men were just the wrong people to be stenography men taking down a transcript of a play...<BR/>How they did any of it with a quill pen and an ink pot amazes me.<BR/>(And my thanks).DrRoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-70915747109489382782007-11-27T17:08:00.000+00:002007-11-27T17:08:00.000+00:00In most cases, it seems the impetus to lay use of ...In most cases, it seems the impetus to lay use of shorthand in church was to grab the sermon for immediate, following-week home study, presumably in the family devotional setting.<BR/><BR/>Some printed sermons derived from shorthand; most did not. Of those that did, some were authorized, some rip-offs.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12159324755547916943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-71726321349382173762007-11-26T20:08:00.000+00:002007-11-26T20:08:00.000+00:00Many thanks, that is an elegant and informed serie...Many thanks, that is an elegant and informed series of web pages you have there ( - or we have there!). At least my hasty impressions were not wrong. Interesting that it's the Puritans who are mainly in the picture. I suppose that, for them, there was far less chance of the 'LXXX Sermons' in mighty folio, more of an underground impetus to the 'samizdat' copy.DrRoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351695058512676554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21432259.post-26125325024096824532007-11-26T19:25:00.000+00:002007-11-26T19:25:00.000+00:00You may be interested in the website residue of a ...You may be interested in the website residue of a Folger Shakespeare Library exhibition on early modern writing technology. The shorthand section, under my supervision, addressed the same point. The most pertinent page is: <BR/><BR/>http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=2315<BR/><BR/>Michael MendleUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12159324755547916943noreply@blogger.com