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From: Stewart
Remote Name: 66.190.218.99
Date: 05/16/2008
Time: 10:07:09 PM
That's interesting, I hope I can read it someday. 1700 would not fit too badly with Falstaff; but, 16th century would be pushing it. The play was written around 1597, in English. I encountered another strange thing in my research, or lack of it. It occurred to me that there might be a connection to the glass shoes used by Ancient Romans in their burials. But, when I tried to look it up online, I found absolutely nothing about them or the custom. I know I remember seeing them myself in a museum, in Germany even, the Roman-German Museum in Koln. But not a word about them can I find. I have half a mind to suspect that Cinderella, champagne from slippers, and beer boots all trace back to glass footware, either surplus or looted, from Ancient Rome. Gathering evidence would be quite a job though.