Script of 'Louis XI'
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.45Keywords:
Pat Hanna, 'Louis XI'Abstract
The script of Louis XI used as the basis for this edition is the only known surviving version, a typescript on lined foolscap held in the National Archives of Australia, Canberra, in the Copyright Applications Series CRS A1336/1 item 14,222.
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By capturing a German soldier who had been awarded this medal.
15-inch artillery shells. See Anna Airy’s famous painting Shop for Machining 15-inch Shells: Singer Manufacturing Company, Clydebank, Glasgow, 1918, showing women factory workers: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/103.
Unsourced slang; it seems to suggest superstitious belief.
A defensive fortification.
Expeditionary Force Canteen. See John Hartley, Bully beef and biscuits: Food in the Great War (London: Pen & Sword, 2015).
1st] ¼0th TS As well as the keystroke error, the typist possibly misread the MS since the intention is to wind back to the same date 450 years earlier. The battle for Peronne took place 30 August–2 September 1918.
A Balafre] Presumably an error since it is Seneschal who is telling the ‘tale’.
From Scott’s novel. See alsohttp://www.roman-catholic-saints.com/our-lady-of-clery.html: ‘In the legend of Saint Liphard de Meung, who lived in 550 AD, mention is made of the town of Clery, and of an oratory dedicated there to the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady of Clery . . . King Louis XI . . . built the church of Clery. He donated to it 2,330 golden crowns, settled upon it great revenues, erected it into a royal chapel, and richly endowed its cannons.’ He is buried there.
ASSAS. nearly stay] Not marked as a stage direction but the intention is clear.
This line is included in Galeotti’s speech but seems more likely to have been said by Louis.
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corp
Gambling game with three dice, popular among service personnel during both world wars. The dice have symbols instead of numbers, one side of which is a crown and another an anchor.
Sixpence.
Military police.
