Here’s a brief clip from a recent production of Twelfth Night that played at the Globe Theatre in London and also on Broadway. I show you this one not only because it’s a fantastic production but also because it’s an attempt at a historically-accurate production: the costumes are meticulous recreations of late-sixteenth-century dress and (more importantly for the purposes of our discussion) the women are all played by men.

There is, by the way, another production of Twelfth Night that’s still showing in the city (Pig Iron Players). I haven’t seen it, but the reviews are very good. If you get the chance, check it out!

The weekly assignment for next Thursday is up under the Assignments tab.

Related to that assignment is this short blog post at The New Yorker about “verbal anachronisms”—tv shows that attempt to be very historically accurate but that still use language in ways that wouldn’t have been used at the time: Nobody Said That Then!