Saturday 27 November 2021

Like Many At School,

some of Shakespeare's works were on the curriculum, 


above William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) ponders his next work, photograph credit Stock Montage/Getty Images, leaving the main plots behind, the bard does have a good turn of phrase when you really look at some of the lines,

“I do desire that we may be better strangers.”

(As You Like It)

“Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage.”

(As You Like It)

“She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.”

(Two Gentlemen of Verona)

“You are now sailed into the north of my lady’s opinion, where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman’s beard.”

(Twelfth Night)

“A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.”

(All’s Well That Ends Well)

“Thou art a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch.”

(King Lear)

even one of the titles is open to discussion as far as it's meaning, Much Ado About Nothing, the word 'nothing' in Shakespearean times was pronounced 'noting' and so the title itself is a pun, and to find out what a ‘noting', really may have meant, have a look here.



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