MDMD(7) Notes)

[Sojourner]

At 02:13 PM 8/30/97 -0400, James Kyllo wrote:
>andrew
>>>214.10 `Florizel and Perdiat' Possibly the name of a play,
>>>but I suspect Lalande is more interested in the ladies than the plot.
>
>tim
>>"Florizel and Perdita" was "A Dramatic Pastoral, in Three Acts" written by
>>*that* David Garrick (who was involved w/Ms. Woffington) in 1758
>
>
>Aren't Florizel & Perdita the lovers in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale?  which
>I suppose the Garrick piece was based on.
>
>James
>

Yes indeedy... for two interesting discussions on the Winter's Tale, see
the following two sites:

http://anglisti.uni-muenster.de/conn/laird412.htm

and its rebuttal:

http://anglisti.uni-muenster.de/conn/hunt51.htm

by the way those of you OED-less, here's
where you can do your research online OED-style:

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/oedbin/oed2www?act=queryform&specfile=/
web/data/oed/oed.o2w

Enjoy..