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No amount of pointing out the vagaries of Elizabethan typesetting could shift his conviction.
In the sixteenth century, an Elizabethan courtier, Sir John Harrington, invented a water-closet with a flushing system and wrote a book on the subject entitled A Metamorphosis of Ajax, published in 1596.
(Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). However, some critics dismiss the project as a corny, nostalgia-heavy tourist trap, "an Elizabethan theme park" (Roy Hattersley, the Guardian ). (Click here for the Globe's site.)
Nor is it easy to determine its origins, although historically an argot known as pelting speech was employed by bands of ne'er-do-wells in Elizabethan England.
In '50s movies set in Elizabethan times, of course, everybody wore big, molded, and pointy breasts with their Renaissancey garb--no flattening was permitted and certainly no exposure.