More Information Than You Perhaps Require Skazka 9000

This episode Ska gets sober and gets cozy, talking about how old tyme Western European dudes kept themselves from showing their junk off in church. Episode commissioned by adreadfulidea @ Tumblr -- commission your own at ko-fi.com/skazka!
Highlights include: rich colors; thrifty diagrams; mixing fibers; keeping warm in a colder climate; silly little hats; a depressing tangent about the disenfranchisement of marginalized persons in Renaissance Florence.

Recommended Reading:

- Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies’ The Tudor Tailor
- Janet Arnold’s Patterns Of Fashion books
- The Renaissance Tailor’s research into 16th and early 17th century tailors’ pattern-books (http://www.renaissancetailor.com/research_main.htm)
- Sexuality in Medieval Europe, Ruth Mazo Karras (for more on Bernardino of Siena, sodomy, and apparel)

SCA and reenacting resources (with all their pitfalls, these are still really handy for visualizing historical construction and silhouette — SCA/reenacting names are given in italics)
- An Overview of Men’s Clothing in Northern Italy c. 1420 – 1480 (14.4 MB), ??? | Lorenzo Petrucci (http://www.dellacivetta.org/lorenzo/handouts/)
- “Men’s Clothing in the Second Half of the 15th Century: From the Skin Out”, James Barker | James de Biblesworth (https://web.archive.org/web/20140611050330/http://historiclife.com/pdf/15thCenturyMensClothing.pdf)
- “15th-century Men’s Doublets: An Overview”, Susan D. Reed | Teleri Talgellawg (https://nachtanz.org/sdr-clothing/15th-century-mens-doublets.html)

Music: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4467-teller-of-the-tales
Teller of the Tales by Kevin MacLeod
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This week Ska chats about the rise and fall of 20th century gay pulp fiction. Highlights include: the strange and curious twilight world of postwar publishing; dubious butches; E.M. Forster; Ed Wood, Jr.; gay detectives; gay housemasters; gay cowboys; gay whores; gay girls; gay psychos; gay brothers; gay awakenings; Fire Island.

Reading recs:
- 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage, ed. Drewey Wayne Gunn & Jaime Harker
- Pulp Friction: Uncovering The Golden Age Of Gay Male Pulps, Michael Bronski
- Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback, Susan Stryker
- Strange Sisters. The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969, Jaye Zimet

For an extremely in-depth (and yet still not exhaustive) list of queer pulps and books determined to be of queer interests check out [the annotated index of books in the University of Toronto’s queer pulp collection drafted to accompany Ian Young’s Out In Paperback (https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/content/gay-pulp-fiction)

Recs online:
- “Gay Pulp” podcast
(https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/gaypulp)
- Arkhamlibrarian @ Twitter for all kinds of great pulp collecting sleaze (https://twitter.com/arkhamlibrarian)
- PulpCovers (https://pulpcovers.com/tag/gay/) (many more under a keyword search for “gay” or “lesbian”, though some of the covers featured under the former keyword are gay-as-in-festive)

Cocktails Imbibed:
The Anita Bryant
1.5 oz. vodka (I used the cheapest I own)
Apple juice (I used Martinelli’s)

Measure vodka into highball glass; add apple juice to top and stir.

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Music: Bummin on Tremelo by Kevin MacLeod
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I get zooted and tell you every single thing I know about several romantic poets.

Topics include: vintage free love; spectral artistic control; obligatory sex on your mother's grave; a great band name; sotadic zones; several compelling reasons not to quit your day job. I bend over backwards not to have to pronounce the name "Bysshe".

(This episode contains some very brief mentions of sexual assault/shit sexual ethics in the Lord Byron section and some talk about terminal illness/suicide with Keats; heads-up if that’s not your preferred listening.)

Also when I refer to Byron’s gossipy letters as Ben Jonson-like I was thinking of BJ’s gossipy convos with William Drummond (https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/a-bizarre-well-of-jacobean-gossip-ben-jonsons-conversations-with-william-drummond/) — I realize out of context that must be baffling.

Thanks to Briony for her genuinely rich and detailed research suggestions for this episode, and thanks to Wikipedia and the murky mists of memory for the research I actually did.

More reading:
- Follow @JuliaFtacek on Twitter for wonderful 18th century lit content, especially her lecture on Byron’s Manfred through a transfeminine literary lens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHGOSS_Ci1k)
- The wonderful folks at Romancing The Gothic (https://romancingthegothic.com/)
- Briony’s booklist: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32906535-bri?shelf=romantic-poets

Cocktails imbibed:
The Chilton (not a fun themed name this time, just a name, courtesy of Texas Monthly)

1.5 oz vodka
Juice of 2 lemons
Soda water (I used carbonated mineral water, like Topo Chico or Gerolsteiner)

Rim glass with salt (or, heretically, with sugar); add ice, vodka, and lemon juice, then top off with soda water. Drink through a straw, or not.

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Music: Danse Macabre - Violin Hook by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3599-danse-macabre---violin-hook
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Music: Danse Macabre - Sad Part by Kevin MacLeod
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Music: Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod
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Skazka has officially one canned cocktail too many and discusses salacious Roman gossip and its uses. At length. Episode commissioned by NoxElementalist.

Topics include: rhetorical uses of bullshit; bygone effeminate gestures; throwing rocks at your enemy’s clitoris; how one vomits into a toga. Special guest star: the velvet-voiced allons_donc as the voice of Cicero.

More reading:
• The Garden Of Priapus: Sexuality & Aggression In Roman Humor, Amy Richlin
• “Mark Antony’s Assault of Publius Clodius: Fact Or Ciceronian Fiction?”, Anthony Alexander
• “Problematic Masculinity: Antony and the Political Sphere in Rome”, Rachael Kelly (Kelly’s scholarship on Antony as a figure of flawed masculinity, especially in HBO’s Rome, is really neat)
• “Perusinae Glandes and the Changing Image of Augustus”, Judith Hallett

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Cover image: Silver denarius depicting Marcus Antonius. (Obverse depicts Cleopatra.) Image licensed by Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. under CC BY-SA 2.5.

Music: Majestic Hills by Kevin MacLeod
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Music: Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeod
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In this installment of my quarantine lecture series: Skazka gets lightly toasted and discusses English Renaissance drama and its subgenres at length. Topics include: pants on fire; wax hands; a hot butch with a lute; extremely non-union stage employment. Commissioned by Mira of the blog For The Gothic Heroine.

Further reading:

- “The Case of Moll Frith”, Natasha Korda
- Jacobean Public Theatre - Alexand Leggatt
- Jacobean Private Theatre - Keith Burgess
- Jacobean Drama - David Farley-Hills
- Labors Lost: Women’s Work And the Early Modern Stage - Natasha Korda
- Documents of Performance in Early Modern England - Tiffany Stern

Plays recommended:

- The Devil’s Charter - Barnabe Barnes
- The Duchess Of Malfi - John Webster
- The Roaring Girl - Thomas Dekker/Philip Massinger
- The Virgin Martyr - Thomas Dekker/Thomas Middleton

Cocktails imbibed:

The Roaring Girl
2 oz. rum (I used Mount Gay Eclipse)
2 oz. apple cider
4 oz. ginger beer (I used Reed’s)
a spritz of orange peel & clove bitters

Commission a two-cocktail quarantine lecture on the history topic of your choice on my Ko-Fi today! I am very bored and I need money for books.

Music: Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod
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