Today during the first day of my MA programme we were having a very serious academic discussion about a very seriously old and obscure British play called Hengist, King of Kent. Everyone had very well thought-out things to say about the portrayal of women in the play, the differences between the quarto and the manuscript texts, and the influence of the British folkloric tradition on its ‘historicity’. Mainly, I found it amusing that the aforementioned Hengist lives in a place called ‘Thong Castle’. Good ol’ Heng-y names the castle himself in a fit of superb creativity and unbridled masculinity. BTW, this is what comes up if you google that phrase, which is a real place in England, in the town of Thong.
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