The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1499 Tuesday, 10 August 2004
[1] From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 09 Aug 2004 11:15:11 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 15.1488 Thunder
[2] From: Geralyn Horton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 9 Aug 2004 12:23:53 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 15.1488 Thunder
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From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 09 Aug 2004 11:15:11 -0500
Subject: 15.1488 Thunder
Comment: Re: SHK 15.1488 Thunder
>Is there really no better documentary or archeological evidence on this
>subject?
Somewhere (unknown to me at the moment) there is a quote (more or less)
of Inigo Jones exclaiming "They've stolen my thunder."
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From: Geralyn Horton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 9 Aug 2004 12:23:53 -0400
Subject: 15.1488 Thunder
Comment: Re: SHK 15.1488 Thunder
>>I have
>>read, but as an apparently poorer scholar cannot provide a citation,
>>that thunder was also simulated in the theater by grasping a thin sheet
>>of tin at one end and snapping the wrist to create a ripple through the
>>sheet that counterfeited the sound of thunder quite well.
>
>I've come-on both the tin sheet theory and the
>cannonballs-down-the-trough theory.
For what it's worth-- which isn't very much-- I remember that a theatre
I worked at in my long-ago youth had a tin (or something like tin)
thunder sheet still in use, and I got someone to show me how to make it
roar for the fun of hearing it. I guess this is tin-sheet practice, as
opposed to theory. As best I can remember, it had some sort of wooden
piece at either end, and a kind of rope handle by which it was shaken.
This would have been in the late fifties or early sixties.
Geralyn Horton, playwright
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