{"id":373,"date":"2025-02-23T15:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/?page_id=373"},"modified":"2025-02-23T15:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:55:35","slug":"book-of-fortunes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cmda-testarea\/book-of-fortunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of Fortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A 'Book of Fortunes' is a sort of romantic horoscope. It is based on a Renaissance game played by courtly ladies and gentlemen originating in Italy and France. Each lady or gentleman in turn would let the book of fortunes fall open at a random page and stick a pin into the page, which would determine his or her fortune. The fortunes, written in verse, were then read out loud to the group.<\/p>\n

The 'Book of Fortunes' is the most important prop in the play and was designed and handmade by Els Van Den Steen<\/a>. The pages in the book were written by Els and students of Els’ calligraphy classes in Sevenoaks & Maidstone Adult Education centres.<\/p>\n

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Content of the ‘Book of Fortunes’ for the 2018 performance of Love’s Victory<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Five fortunes to be taken from the book and read out loud<\/li>\n
  2. Other love poems by members of the Sidney family (Mary Wroth’s father, aunt and uncle as well as Mary Wroth’s father, aunt and uncle as well as Lady Mary Wroth wrote love poetry outside the script)<\/li>\n
  3. Five riddles<\/li>\n
  4. One song<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Photos of Els creating the Book of Fortunes<\/strong><\/em>
    \nNote: Flipbook best viewed full-screen.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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