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> >We should remember that > >by the standards of the time a theater ranked in respectability > >somewhere between a tavern and a whorehouse. > > praise the lord. > what has changed? > Quite a lot, actually, Komninos. I dunno how things are in Queensland but here in Leicester whorehouses, unless catering for the executive trade, and office parties, when they become 'massage parlours', tend also to be places where crack cocaine and guns reside, which latter I particularly noticed the other year when a bloke was gunned down round the corner in front of the local knocking-shop, while 'taverns' - my, that word - if designated such are likely to be items in the portfolios of corporate catering entities of the Grand Met style, staffed by uniformed minimum-wage earners, who must key in their identities to the till for each transaction, no perks of the job there, in an atmosphere of antiseptic blandness reminiscent of the better kind of public convenience, the kind that you have to book in advance to attend. They are even known to have no-smoking areas. Aaargh! Some scruffy, scummy, tornseat ill-mannered badly lit and heated pubs do survive, serving from a damp cellar distinctive dark brews that the cellarman has probably been sick in overnight, but these I am afraid are an endangered species, unsupported by protesters. Whereas the theatres tend to be very proper, well-tended places, for which people dress as if weddings, slightly marred by the feeling that if you were to ask for a 'Meat Pie' you might be torn limb from limb at the least, or sent to live in Northampton which is worst. After going to a play, you often feel as if you have been Very Good and gone to church on a Sunday morning after a long absence. david bircumshaw ----- Original Message ----- From: komninos zervos <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 10:41 PM Subject: Re: Shakespeare and Christianity. > At 01:36 PM 1/20/01 -0800, you wrote: > >We should remember that > >by the standards of the time a theater ranked in respectability > >somewhere between a tavern and a whorehouse. > > praise the lord. > what has changed? > > komninos > komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502 > cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/ > komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872 > lecturer in cyberStudies, > school of arts, > gold coast campus, > griffith university, > pmb 50, gold coast mail centre > queensland, 9726 > australia.