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Unable to wait for next week’s instalment of The Hollow Crown, I jumped in my time machine and travelled back to late 16th-century London to find out what happens next. Imagine how surprised I was to find THIS pinned to the door of the Globe Theatre! It seems that entitled author hissy-fits are not as recent an invention as you might have thought…

Unable to wait for next week’s instalment of The Hollow Crown, I jumped in my time machine and travelled back to late 16th-century London to find out what happens next. Imagine how surprised I was to find THIS pinned to the door of the Globe Theatre!

It seems that entitled author hissy-fits are not as recent an invention as you might have thought…

Inspired by Henry IV, Part 1, here’s a helping of anachronistic silliness from the privy wall at the Boar’s Head Tavern. The otter is mentioned in Act 3, Scene 3, and the beaver is from Act 4, Scene 1.

In other news, Tom Hiddleston can lie on my kitchen floor in a haze of leather-clad sherry-soaked debauchery any time he wants.