More Misc. V-2nd. The profaning of The Street

[Mark Kohut]

The late Tony Tanner, great early Pynchon appreciator, in his introduction
to Shakespeare's history plays, makes this literary "historical" observation 
(paraphrase
w addition, not a direct quote)
 
The Medieval morality plays, with characters named such as Mercy and Mortality 
[Cf.]
or even more Pynchonianly like Crafty Conveyance and Cloaked 
Collusion.............
took their show to the street, literally....................the street was 
"holy' not profane then
 
later, when 'everything became theater", maybe...........plays went back 
indoors..............
Why am I reminded of the movie theater metaphor and film motif of GR?..........
[I know.  I'm Kutely Krazy].....
 
Tanner also remarks that Shakespeare, who virtually invented History plays, 
brought
a plot, an imposed meaning on English history, when most historiography was, 
more simply.
chronicles [Hollinshead]......Although some historians started to see English 
history as morally 

meaningful, Shakespeare saw it with much greater richness and 
'ambiguity'......................
 
Which leads me to reflect, uninsightfully, on Pynchon's seeing of history, 
starting fully in V.  

It is a kind of critical cliche to say: P sees NO moral meaningfulness, no unity 
[thanks Henry A.
and Alice] in history, in fact he sees a lot of evil multiplicity, yes?