Talk:Lord Wynkin's Men

Here's a loose end. Lord Wynkin's Men would likely have performed for Lord Wynkin and his guests, perhaps on retainer, but a noble would hardly have been a theatrical producer. Lord Wynkin is not mentioned in any other context. Are the company and its patron so ancient that he's not remembered otherwise? I've never understood the supposed contradiction of The Dysk and the Opera House while Roundworld's London supports a Globe Theatre, the Royal Opera House, West End theatre and any number of clicks palaces and venues for rock concerts. This company also suggests a range of styles in Ankh-Morpork theatre. --Old Dickens (talk) 05:39, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

I've got a vague, a very vague, idea that Wynkin might have been referenced once as one of those long-gone Lords of Ankh-Morpork, of a now extinct line, who fought a crucial battle in a swamp somewhere. Probably referenced for leading his men into a swamp in the first place and getting them slaughtered in a wholly un-necessary engagement. Especially in Elizabethan England, lots of lords wanted to be seen as mannered, courteous and patrons of the arts (when they weren't out fighting and slaughtering). witness Sir Philip Sidney, who wrote romantic fiction, and the Earl of Essex, who sponsored a Brummie wordsmith called Shakespeare and whose missus is suspected to have been a Dark Lady of the Sonnets. So Wynkin might have bunged a few surpolus dollars at a theatrical company so as to look cultured? AgProv (talk) 00:31, 10 January 2017 (UTC)