tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75810998727246836502024-03-17T22:00:37.211-05:00BardfilmBardfilm, the Shakespeare and Film Blog, comments on films, plays, and other matters related to Shakespeare.kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.comBlogger1232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-63201767361391549342024-02-15T11:30:00.003-06:002024-02-15T11:30:22.557-06:00Book Note: The Two Noble Kinsmen<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFBup4hf4l2a6RQebYL-fA-vVgATzty65YwYft6mf-GsvR7rRE9eYZ739Tx3MDs0j6CnNNm7L4-Z6fwuFfy_uBV8BJQ0Hvl1WEILwuAwDOP3W76TfJxguZp7y5Pa5KpLzJDP6xutvZo0ej-WlF9TdG35t5uC32JBZ4hXQRRZweZwRGWEBLONZmdCuesmo" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2435" data-original-width="1582" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFBup4hf4l2a6RQebYL-fA-vVgATzty65YwYft6mf-GsvR7rRE9eYZ739Tx3MDs0j6CnNNm7L4-Z6fwuFfy_uBV8BJQ0Hvl1WEILwuAwDOP3W76TfJxguZp7y5Pa5KpLzJDP6xutvZo0ej-WlF9TdG35t5uC32JBZ4hXQRRZweZwRGWEBLONZmdCuesmo" width="156" /></a></div>Shakespeare, William, and John Fletcher. <u>The Two Noble Kinsmen</u>. Ed. Lois Potter. Walton-on-Thames: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1997. Arden Shakespeare.</span></span><hr />Every ten years or so, I re-read <i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>. I first read it toward the end of my graduate work. I had a vague idea of writing my dissertation on madness in female characters in Shakespeare, and the play has one notable example.<div><br /></div><div>It's also likely to be Shakespeare's last play, though not his last individually-authored play. <br /><div><br /></div><div>It's also a good play with a lot of fun material, and it's also one of the few places where Chaucer serves as a major source: The plot of <i>The Knight's Tale</i> is the foundation of <i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>The setting is a war between Athens (led by Theseus—technically, he's the same Theseus from <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>) and Thebes. During the war, Palamon and Arcite, two close friends fighting somewhat unwillingly but still honorably for Thebes, are captured and imprisoned.</div><div><br /></div><div>The scene between the two of them is one of my favorites in the play. They pledge eternal loyalty to each other and are happy in prison because they're together in prison. When Palamon asks, "Is there record of any two that loved / Better than we do, Arcite?" (II.ii.12–13), Arcite replies "Sure there cannot" (II.ii.13).</div><div><br /></div><div>And then . . . enter Emilia.</div><div><br /></div><div>Palamon sees her first and falls immediately in love with her. Arcite sees her next and falls immediately in love with her. Then they get to argue comically about whose love should have the priority. Here's that scene:</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK9Tc_jJdRBnRkniiBaag2DDeRO7uNas6cvtQrILivxGLW6jnw8D6vNkD-TRig0utqdjLKnTnijcqiF7igPED5c1suWCUgODLghHEUrHfIe5ne8HsyNnAGsTJKWdelLt7GHCF8LSh7H7N7-H4_IPINrB2e4rESRq9AKwedzxE16UAXb2aNs5jydzY1M8k" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="2997" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK9Tc_jJdRBnRkniiBaag2DDeRO7uNas6cvtQrILivxGLW6jnw8D6vNkD-TRig0utqdjLKnTnijcqiF7igPED5c1suWCUgODLghHEUrHfIe5ne8HsyNnAGsTJKWdelLt7GHCF8LSh7H7N7-H4_IPINrB2e4rESRq9AKwedzxE16UAXb2aNs5jydzY1M8k=w640-h502" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtpAAsy7NwCqkeTvokjNus5NOP9MTHV7eWBRP6gidqDcWchCRM33b3o8a8YNAml7dHMWN0jGjaLPmj3ETItAnRZwSVtOyFocBgGvgttn81NrkVSOTzxS7juKr3rAVloOVWDFC1_GGiTU9Fi3ryg4CsWhyCEHfzulUYhLII2UPSMVVHWuQYXye7wHpJfT0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="2997" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtpAAsy7NwCqkeTvokjNus5NOP9MTHV7eWBRP6gidqDcWchCRM33b3o8a8YNAml7dHMWN0jGjaLPmj3ETItAnRZwSVtOyFocBgGvgttn81NrkVSOTzxS7juKr3rAVloOVWDFC1_GGiTU9Fi3ryg4CsWhyCEHfzulUYhLII2UPSMVVHWuQYXye7wHpJfT0=w640-h502" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg26vPPxZ0EaKFj5wFFyVf28HDq-ESr2Tl0wIfbakm1ggYVHPp2rSQ-sPC0N0xnGaJw8vT6VDNs0Kk8jaM5sTTrq3oSt3VJ2W8U-ZJQmGkALQiQDQj9BT1HZvEYe1Bzd7XH2_1Rq49MyMG-rXYIQmnM8YMxOhqP5AqsKeY-yybyCAsrRDaXjbiwIUcBR6w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="2997" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg26vPPxZ0EaKFj5wFFyVf28HDq-ESr2Tl0wIfbakm1ggYVHPp2rSQ-sPC0N0xnGaJw8vT6VDNs0Kk8jaM5sTTrq3oSt3VJ2W8U-ZJQmGkALQiQDQj9BT1HZvEYe1Bzd7XH2_1Rq49MyMG-rXYIQmnM8YMxOhqP5AqsKeY-yybyCAsrRDaXjbiwIUcBR6w=w640-h502" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhH-w79LUgDI5sazSMcwPgEtAtxGRufUGBt2L-p3Kc-j_nWknlBUjGQpGTZ1swDOmROX6G8kiOQjGB_fTuewEi7Ja6VSaOUIFvCes8CmOhqV8eiOIMOOv_rECXS-ADNDjfsCLydbR44-MLLnkdwRTwuTaoRn9DEIV620rx7mzT8FKJvDAN6gs4SKFd7PsM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2362" data-original-width="2997" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhH-w79LUgDI5sazSMcwPgEtAtxGRufUGBt2L-p3Kc-j_nWknlBUjGQpGTZ1swDOmROX6G8kiOQjGB_fTuewEi7Ja6VSaOUIFvCes8CmOhqV8eiOIMOOv_rECXS-ADNDjfsCLydbR44-MLLnkdwRTwuTaoRn9DEIV620rx7mzT8FKJvDAN6gs4SKFd7PsM=w640-h502" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">It's all great, compelling material that sorts itself out through the rest of the play.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As that develops, we learn that the Jailer's Daughter (he's unnamed, and so is she) has fallen in love with Palamon—but when he fails to return her love, she goes mad. Act IV, scene iii shows us her madness and the plan for alleviating it:</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFJINjJQmNPzQCjAs046XhWId38x1-3_QsrYKuqup-Bac3X-oJVp1IU-j4B5dEb8tcpgTx2iL6C0cHmc_wznlt8MyFzZy0-vxyNAZFE2IHXygMr1WWh18fA4G60fD9FTHhK3gxbVMYpUEBUCi17YFamokUEYNFBwYwZFzrl4lI7cgTfjlozqwhWsZEK5s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2372" data-original-width="2950" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFJINjJQmNPzQCjAs046XhWId38x1-3_QsrYKuqup-Bac3X-oJVp1IU-j4B5dEb8tcpgTx2iL6C0cHmc_wznlt8MyFzZy0-vxyNAZFE2IHXygMr1WWh18fA4G60fD9FTHhK3gxbVMYpUEBUCi17YFamokUEYNFBwYwZFzrl4lI7cgTfjlozqwhWsZEK5s=w640-h512" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXKLGkJ7Pfi0zux2NsdlnOu8E8NJ5-GICUaDOmyJKB6P2VPf0WzRqEblM9mjXVeBzKezKhsEV80ccyRyGl84BlBxCj6GIpXobWQVPFiN8sisEbKrJ5BNcu5eEAvXdrl5sXG4iuyfYyMdQOSH1DZ5g9oCWxYj_4jFLoGriW6sD3VWWJDCGwL_7ZrqsdPQg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2372" data-original-width="2950" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXKLGkJ7Pfi0zux2NsdlnOu8E8NJ5-GICUaDOmyJKB6P2VPf0WzRqEblM9mjXVeBzKezKhsEV80ccyRyGl84BlBxCj6GIpXobWQVPFiN8sisEbKrJ5BNcu5eEAvXdrl5sXG4iuyfYyMdQOSH1DZ5g9oCWxYj_4jFLoGriW6sD3VWWJDCGwL_7ZrqsdPQg=w640-h512" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQvBcKJTGwuematpz9dffHndLoF_l9PjUXWGK3TchAZ6zx14DI654cM3dGJzjfEbjLrEIo0vdW5PZA60AXLRxk7s5txnvqeSIwCdzfT-1pwOJhzV1kD1T6r8Xyug3DvOVYpjrJJaUStWcb2ZdtDPLXOJS8pYvHnXnCFmbj6B-5Id0rKu2rDH8wXTGZmBc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2372" data-original-width="2950" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQvBcKJTGwuematpz9dffHndLoF_l9PjUXWGK3TchAZ6zx14DI654cM3dGJzjfEbjLrEIo0vdW5PZA60AXLRxk7s5txnvqeSIwCdzfT-1pwOJhzV1kD1T6r8Xyug3DvOVYpjrJJaUStWcb2ZdtDPLXOJS8pYvHnXnCFmbj6B-5Id0rKu2rDH8wXTGZmBc=w640-h512" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRzUXR_yuBPsKB7R0PTwkyxQXHdh7tZG6NNsXOfxDOSUyqWz28FT_U8wASxmp42bNhnzN2Hi5Uinpx-scny66IQsIgc8nWnx1PVd6Sve0sPODWHvt2o9C5gElmx7_8a3oqtGMoaGf-n1MARX0ZLj_XLzN0OdnzIZKHI0z6Jsa710e8f0NXHCFUfUpeW2A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2372" data-original-width="2950" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRzUXR_yuBPsKB7R0PTwkyxQXHdh7tZG6NNsXOfxDOSUyqWz28FT_U8wASxmp42bNhnzN2Hi5Uinpx-scny66IQsIgc8nWnx1PVd6Sve0sPODWHvt2o9C5gElmx7_8a3oqtGMoaGf-n1MARX0ZLj_XLzN0OdnzIZKHI0z6Jsa710e8f0NXHCFUfUpeW2A=w640-h512" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">There's more good, rich material there—including a rare (for Shakespeare) reference to barley-break (about which you can learn more <a href="http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2022/03/lets-barley-break.html" target="_blank">here</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's not the best play in the canon, but it's still quite interesting and quite readable. The scenes I like best are usually attributed to Fletcher—which makes sense if Fletcher is the up-and-coming new dramatist and Shakespeare is the author about to retire.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I recommend reading it—though once every ten years is sufficient. But let me know if you learn of a staging of the play! I'd love to see it in production.</div></div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click <a href="https://amzn.to/42KJKI7" target="_blank">here</a> to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
(and to support Bardfilm as you do so).<br /><br /></div></i></div></div>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-35781020832739782172024-02-08T09:58:00.000-06:002024-02-08T09:58:04.924-06:00Overreaction to a New York Times Crossword Puzzle Clue<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDsgyfiNFcB90X3IweXxrm2MJwDDH8z2We8P_vx1IeLywgDkMzB1mRyfswaj3SY9S5RzuT8HGJp6V9f49XCrFn91nKVx-Vow8qm0hk3N1n8tuEka1VAHqrzBa0jd2nUbZ9auQbQCFGl7OuYz8kpCZ9CcPXMhGpsQmJajT40dZy-tIZKnB2Zh8LodKVnt0" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="551" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDsgyfiNFcB90X3IweXxrm2MJwDDH8z2We8P_vx1IeLywgDkMzB1mRyfswaj3SY9S5RzuT8HGJp6V9f49XCrFn91nKVx-Vow8qm0hk3N1n8tuEka1VAHqrzBa0jd2nUbZ9auQbQCFGl7OuYz8kpCZ9CcPXMhGpsQmJajT40dZy-tIZKnB2Zh8LodKVnt0" width="320" /></a></div>Sinclair, </i><i>Sarah and Rafael Musa. </i><i>"The Door's Open." <u>New York Times</u> Crossword Puzzle</i><i>. Edited by Will Shortz. </i><i>Friday, January 26, 2024.</i><i> "Tricky Clues" note by Deb Amlen. </i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><hr /><i>Shakespeare, William. <u>Hamlet</u>. Ed. Harold Jenkins. 2nd. ed. London: Arden, 1982.</i></span><hr /><i>Note: There will be a spoiler for four-across in this post. But you can see the clue and the blank space on the image to the right. Read on at your own risk</i>.<div><br /></div><div>I haven't been doing crossword puzzles for long, but, like far more seasoned puzzle-doers, I can already complain about the clues.</div><div><br /></div><div>As you might suspect, I particularly revel in the not-infrequent Shakespeare clues. It's nice to find a balcony or a last word Hamlet utters or the occasional fool. But then there are the less-straightforward clues—the ones that border on the controversial or at least that require more explanation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Such is the case with the clue for 4A in a recent puzzle: "The 'handsaw' in Hamlet's 'I know a hawk from a handsaw.'" And the answer, as you can see below, is "Heron."<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTE4RriQI_CGIMRHHj0E6EnyW1xo7SFaTdKCoGPr0zF5rZrkAXbK725CM7zL6Mremx-Xr0nNnbdIInUoXCJJV_TC-V6jtIbKIGyRMx6ZueYotNsGGyewJqxBEAQ_oPQMD1XkNHJfZ9iAy3bYl9ZK9IPLcE7Y-12Njx7cTNZOto5lHAenlKYcBZF-Xpyhk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="292" data-original-width="1124" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTE4RriQI_CGIMRHHj0E6EnyW1xo7SFaTdKCoGPr0zF5rZrkAXbK725CM7zL6Mremx-Xr0nNnbdIInUoXCJJV_TC-V6jtIbKIGyRMx6ZueYotNsGGyewJqxBEAQ_oPQMD1XkNHJfZ9iAy3bYl9ZK9IPLcE7Y-12Njx7cTNZOto5lHAenlKYcBZF-Xpyhk=w640-h166" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The most reasonable response to this is, of course, "Huh?" And the explanation in the "Tricky Clues" section doesn't really help much:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB8Dyel5ck5iZv7hS0l0gBQCnexcuJSs5w8LWEITcUGAo9u78PBHDmrhjZ9ZjI_VpUTjkEnRDq2ATD1alRQsKGjqYAo31W0lWQv64kkWnOgs3oydO_gmgb-tfBEoth2_qP5mA4MiePP_D6A_xj0C7QI-1uiOfqv_Icy8xO8_d4s5JldCYO4fsDqIGOnrI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1307" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB8Dyel5ck5iZv7hS0l0gBQCnexcuJSs5w8LWEITcUGAo9u78PBHDmrhjZ9ZjI_VpUTjkEnRDq2ATD1alRQsKGjqYAo31W0lWQv64kkWnOgs3oydO_gmgb-tfBEoth2_qP5mA4MiePP_D6A_xj0C7QI-1uiOfqv_Icy8xO8_d4s5JldCYO4fsDqIGOnrI=w640-h312" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">At times like these, there are worse things to do than turn to Harold Jenkins' Arden edition of <i>Hamlet</i>. Here's his brief note on the line:</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQNlKKCein0aj_oslpn9YTctHxaxsqWVC__LxUPJXoq0SPSrOBjOBvzRCJmWr1oYdIRfVF14TZ6nkowvmEIjyc2bzUkCEzlOA76yIdm-mNa3qMsGpvy7gkMxWQOBWDhEp2YYnvZOO-EJqxc6Dh-QvVHZRQXTJCW4AAJzIJvFTsVdbzkGttlbkt3_XKXTA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="269" data-original-width="512" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQNlKKCein0aj_oslpn9YTctHxaxsqWVC__LxUPJXoq0SPSrOBjOBvzRCJmWr1oYdIRfVF14TZ6nkowvmEIjyc2bzUkCEzlOA76yIdm-mNa3qMsGpvy7gkMxWQOBWDhEp2YYnvZOO-EJqxc6Dh-QvVHZRQXTJCW4AAJzIJvFTsVdbzkGttlbkt3_XKXTA=w640-h336" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Being Jenkins, we also have a comprehensive LN (Long Note) that tells us more:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT0u-VTiAVV2kprq6phs3chPPGZfC5-ws4InWgk31skAvZMIgz05QbBT1MBBvOYVtU2mwXlo0w90RccjcNM4ZmtoCKGZ3R29Dti0VsJGc3F8_gh9Xg2J5rrG1bkuyuhpGMW3sLxEMKDRES3pBRgQb2R6XQYN2UfhcNAG0gNKU5Ct3rWpikD14iiCEVea8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="283" data-original-width="512" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT0u-VTiAVV2kprq6phs3chPPGZfC5-ws4InWgk31skAvZMIgz05QbBT1MBBvOYVtU2mwXlo0w90RccjcNM4ZmtoCKGZ3R29Dti0VsJGc3F8_gh9Xg2J5rrG1bkuyuhpGMW3sLxEMKDRES3pBRgQb2R6XQYN2UfhcNAG0gNKU5Ct3rWpikD14iiCEVea8=w640-h358" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf7Ta7uK-lvdLFVzOJed_2BLdozkkXQWdT-2dYOhi2xi20DWHlNicbOpkZ-puqaM0XrgGUHjkwqCUTHIn25UcSvGUJLtQc4BVd_fZ_PYV8zyH488y8U3u2OH5eqXmLa_HW0EQQwTH4LCIxoeJ_1DIt5cDHXnSAD95wTGoAGSqf34RJcamx0MqLCnV3bjg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="498" data-original-width="512" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf7Ta7uK-lvdLFVzOJed_2BLdozkkXQWdT-2dYOhi2xi20DWHlNicbOpkZ-puqaM0XrgGUHjkwqCUTHIn25UcSvGUJLtQc4BVd_fZ_PYV8zyH488y8U3u2OH5eqXmLa_HW0EQQwTH4LCIxoeJ_1DIt5cDHXnSAD95wTGoAGSqf34RJcamx0MqLCnV3bjg=w640-h622" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Thank you, Harold Jenkins! The "Tricky Clues" explanation made it seem like everyone should automatically know that when Hamlet says "handsaw," he really means "heron." It's more complicated than that.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And I agree with Jenkins' general reading that no such stretching is necessary. Putting the two terms into the same class (two kinds of birds or two kinds of tools) empties the phrase of its vitality and its import. Hamlet isn't saying that he can tell two very similar things apart ("I can tell the difference between a 200-thread-count and a 220-thread-count pillowcase" or "I can tell a 40-watt bulb from a 45-watt bulb"). That would give the spies Rosencrantz and Guildenstern too great a reason to watch him even more closely. Instead, he's saying he knows the difference between a mountain and a molehill or an elephant and an earwig—something that takes no special insight or intelligence. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It reminds me of the people who insist that when Jesus says it's as easy for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven as it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, he isn't talking about a literal needle but about a very small gate called "the needle's eye." You could just get a camel through that gate if you unloaded it and did a lot of convincing and cajoling: it would be difficult, but not impossible. Interpreting it in that way takes away its power and its humor.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"I can tell a hawk from a handsaw"—I can tell the difference between a living, breathing, feathered bird found in the wild and an inanimate object found on a carpenter's workbench—says everything by saying nothing. Let's leave it with its power and humor. The answer to 4A should be "small saw."</div></div><hr /><i>Links: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily/2024/01/26" target="_blank">The puzzle in the NYTimes archives</a>.<br /><br />
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[By Lewis Theobald at the very least.] Ed. Brean Hammond. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2010.</span></span><hr />After reading the Arden edition of <i>Arden of Faversham</i>, a play written early in Shakespeare's career with some possible Shakespeare connections (for which, <a href="http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2023/12/book-note-arden-of-faversham.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>), I thought it time to give a try to the Arden edition of <i>Double Falsehood</i>, a play that might have some connections to the late part of Shakespeare's career.<div><br /></div><div>By way of overview, <i>Double Falsehood</i> was a play produced in 1727 by Lewis Theobald, one of the famous earlier editors of Shakespeare. A year later, Theobald printed the play. Theobald said he had three separate manuscripts of a play by Shakespeare on which he based his play. Note that this doesn't mean that any of them were in Shakespeare's hand; "manuscript" just means hand-written rather than printed. The manuscripts are no longer extant. <br /><div><br /></div><div>The long and short of my take is that the Arden edition of <i>Double Falsehood</i> is, with some qualifications, a marvelously scholarly edition of a simply dreadful play.</div><div><br /></div><div>While reading through Brean Hammond's lengthy introduction and apparatus, which runs almost forty pages longer than the text of the play it introduces, I was struck by how nearly every point had a direct or indirect connection to the possibility of Shakespeare's authorship of the play. What echos of Shakespeare can we find in <i>Double Falsehood</i>? Was Theobald a forger or deluded or deceived or genuine? What did Shakespeare know and when did he know it? And so on and on and on.</div><div><br /></div><div>I know it doesn't sound like me, but I started wanted less about Shakespeare and more about the play itself.</div><div><br /></div><div>And then I read the play itself—or re-read, really. I had read it once before, many years ago, in a different edition, had not thought much of it, and hadn't done any more with it. On this reading, I realized just how dull and uninspiring it is. The introduction talks about connections to Shakespeare because there's not much to say about the play itself.</div><div><br /></div><div>What the edition has to say is mostly scholarly and interesting. By way of example, here are the first few pages. Showing them to you will provide the added benefit of a better and deeper introduction to the play and its questions than I can give.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihW2Hzoic61xEU2Uuk7jUnny7BNO_Uo4iMWovTm-h-Yu_JORzRNqWTv6A-Pe3M3HkMIWhqvGW8fZSlLHJPzn2xu8vlHs1HEsjIoXk558VWIh-KJD-w1GUJwJJrYhLEdhBlPAcsqs4wITXULZovGrPVlsa6lrQPD9trHLH_NXalsZYnN45x-dO53WFdDBU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2136" data-original-width="1355" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihW2Hzoic61xEU2Uuk7jUnny7BNO_Uo4iMWovTm-h-Yu_JORzRNqWTv6A-Pe3M3HkMIWhqvGW8fZSlLHJPzn2xu8vlHs1HEsjIoXk558VWIh-KJD-w1GUJwJJrYhLEdhBlPAcsqs4wITXULZovGrPVlsa6lrQPD9trHLH_NXalsZYnN45x-dO53WFdDBU=w408-h640" width="408" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIWqTuYgISELk928UXXULUsSeIxAai7ejWxLXFL-uEdeqoYrlevUQzfQtWcNyCa7hE1Ceu4uuCo14ssTJHrsxK4YDZWpkiPggjxVgQTnV9_yq4GV4DO-3S-5X5k-0zMX1SGr8TTOq3BLPJ-sOXuwNCJa0V6MJno53BphbwMm0dtWSw94U_-SZEJWS8JLs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2319" data-original-width="1433" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIWqTuYgISELk928UXXULUsSeIxAai7ejWxLXFL-uEdeqoYrlevUQzfQtWcNyCa7hE1Ceu4uuCo14ssTJHrsxK4YDZWpkiPggjxVgQTnV9_yq4GV4DO-3S-5X5k-0zMX1SGr8TTOq3BLPJ-sOXuwNCJa0V6MJno53BphbwMm0dtWSw94U_-SZEJWS8JLs=w395-h640" width="395" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMhaIel7zElZjlgLJzKcT66u29ns4g_wFSRPG1N4yXYnWGuOKOcB4pphst2rjzEr3_TAEdt_tcxsZAdhOhqB3FD5SgeJPhe9nAXX-4IQwBKp2vEHG6y29DBMO1ZbnOZ8ETfNOnEEhpRYm8VwHMel9CMgcnN5kNvsHx312CkRJGJL2W_MkV5xnY9_ynAJo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2329" data-original-width="1375" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMhaIel7zElZjlgLJzKcT66u29ns4g_wFSRPG1N4yXYnWGuOKOcB4pphst2rjzEr3_TAEdt_tcxsZAdhOhqB3FD5SgeJPhe9nAXX-4IQwBKp2vEHG6y29DBMO1ZbnOZ8ETfNOnEEhpRYm8VwHMel9CMgcnN5kNvsHx312CkRJGJL2W_MkV5xnY9_ynAJo=w379-h640" width="379" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD27AU6X_pCsJSBcEo59USGRB8FEyAtEBeAqli_tgM9EVpT4sFm3juUx4AoxNpojxMwecI_8i55RALUBLEQv8it2BX-BEBNG8XSNWtondoel-Z_QD8Qbc1MWzvwPjQSY8gnW_qXGdzw-0ofxTa-rIHDKpZ8UazJ8XEYqcLBAW9VEYy3g_BMqsoO6lC0bk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2319" data-original-width="1355" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD27AU6X_pCsJSBcEo59USGRB8FEyAtEBeAqli_tgM9EVpT4sFm3juUx4AoxNpojxMwecI_8i55RALUBLEQv8it2BX-BEBNG8XSNWtondoel-Z_QD8Qbc1MWzvwPjQSY8gnW_qXGdzw-0ofxTa-rIHDKpZ8UazJ8XEYqcLBAW9VEYy3g_BMqsoO6lC0bk=w373-h640" width="373" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">That should catch us all up pretty well. Serious questions about the three manuscripts call the authenticity of the play we have into question; nonetheless, many scholars think that Theobald's <i>Double Falsehood</i> is a version of an original play written by William Shakespeare in collaboration with John Fletcher.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's also generally accepted the <i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i> is a collaborative effort by Shakespeare and Fletcher. That play was itself adapted by William Davenant in 1664 under the title <i>The Rivals</i>. And, as my Grandmother Jones used to day, I told you that to tell you this. That's where this edition makes a strange and irrelevant turn. The argument is that, with <i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>, we have the source material (Geoffrey Chaucer's <i>Knight's Tale</i>), the Shakespeare / Fletcher collaboration (<i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>), and a restoration adaptation (Davenant's <i>Rivals</i>):</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSiqF9PVTIyQzn4IcHtgsHLC-6WLFVMHoITxwpr_5kUi0hmBZ_Hxx3skrW5zTnTS2GOO0IJWpVp-B49cFHstf7rsNcGQpBWWN-i3WoIo7y3v_Jz7Uoer3Iy79tHS0YQksi9P4IhvofV_hZLmbKjE2zI4HBmWrTKTZDmZov4cymd213XGk8Ii8smMVFYSU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="3131" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSiqF9PVTIyQzn4IcHtgsHLC-6WLFVMHoITxwpr_5kUi0hmBZ_Hxx3skrW5zTnTS2GOO0IJWpVp-B49cFHstf7rsNcGQpBWWN-i3WoIo7y3v_Jz7Uoer3Iy79tHS0YQksi9P4IhvofV_hZLmbKjE2zI4HBmWrTKTZDmZov4cymd213XGk8Ii8smMVFYSU=w640-h244" width="640" /></a></div><br />We have, the Arden edition argues, a parallel with <i>Double Falsehood</i>:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbfFcOuojHm7g82EL86TdCpBvW1N4uvFosPyEshoTxdsgKfodWxdecf9zHo1Ar9HRC0LGEWqF6xO_QwRyESIZH_8AA_b-G3W-qb3LKUSiKJWYyPG7Sgv9lovFMcMbQnPyz37pCq8zwbsR2NqcDg8JrJeFS2XBf0TrqLjHWmC3S-RU0gnpYvHCFAICnU84" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1139" data-original-width="3230" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbfFcOuojHm7g82EL86TdCpBvW1N4uvFosPyEshoTxdsgKfodWxdecf9zHo1Ar9HRC0LGEWqF6xO_QwRyESIZH_8AA_b-G3W-qb3LKUSiKJWYyPG7Sgv9lovFMcMbQnPyz37pCq8zwbsR2NqcDg8JrJeFS2XBf0TrqLjHWmC3S-RU0gnpYvHCFAICnU84=w640-h226" width="640" /></a></div><br />Three of three steps are available when we think about <i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>; only two of three are available in the consideration of <i>Double Falsehood</i>. Yet we can (runs this edition's argument) use the relationship between <i>The Knight's Tale</i>, <i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>,<i> </i>and <i>The Rivals</i> to speculate about the relationship between <i>Don Quixote</i>, <i>Cardenio</i>, and <i>Double Falsehood</i>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Not to put too fine a point on it, that seems like nonsense. Imagine that we did not have any of the texts of <i>Hamlet</i>. We know its source, and we know an adaptation of the play. Can we determine anything about the missing play based on those points?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEid-TkJNiBe9CnxcMmuvSYXKdMq1PIZcLNLyOdPpSvBR24HPl1vz7eu2jzpTT1fN4SnVMJCHHFbNIXYaRSZPJSal_rUh2SS6ZlZwixgz16jHav6xUX5eZot_aqP9D2JLsQTrBplH7fecTD-h-bruk69TETRQvx029C2j9p8jL5AQzbq_aWmBUpt7icpWDY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="3205" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEid-TkJNiBe9CnxcMmuvSYXKdMq1PIZcLNLyOdPpSvBR24HPl1vz7eu2jzpTT1fN4SnVMJCHHFbNIXYaRSZPJSal_rUh2SS6ZlZwixgz16jHav6xUX5eZot_aqP9D2JLsQTrBplH7fecTD-h-bruk69TETRQvx029C2j9p8jL5AQzbq_aWmBUpt7icpWDY=w640-h240" width="640" /></a></div><br />I know that my chart has even fewer points of comparison than that proposed by the Arden edition. But the analogy still seems neither relevant nor useful. But it does show the way this edition is grasping at any possible straw to try to find something Shakespearean in Theobald's play. Fortunately, the introduction doesn't spend too much time on that point.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The play itself doesn't have much to recommend it, but there are still some points of interest. Early in the play, the villainous Henriquez sets out to woo the non-aristocratic Violante. His speeches capture the character of the infatuated quite well:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgV9GRVo9vOwUH5grkhAUOcuu_YHVI-hHJpwafurAiLdaB8cfo9x-WcSGhLJHAwtYRM9NOfJ0cQuyiG0gSWFSG91jYM-t3miCAivBH6Q0Ljlt724Kuy3LJ52Yf4KoeRUIQnHwfwL91plJ4FyaKB6ZIqDjdoQDXQCX-YUM_NEktjkXzb1vYlGWv1PPnfYQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2312" data-original-width="2903" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgV9GRVo9vOwUH5grkhAUOcuu_YHVI-hHJpwafurAiLdaB8cfo9x-WcSGhLJHAwtYRM9NOfJ0cQuyiG0gSWFSG91jYM-t3miCAivBH6Q0Ljlt724Kuy3LJ52Yf4KoeRUIQnHwfwL91plJ4FyaKB6ZIqDjdoQDXQCX-YUM_NEktjkXzb1vYlGWv1PPnfYQ=w640-h510" width="640" /></a></div><br />Note, though, the note to I.iii.27.s.d. The twice-repeated "Hmmmmm" there shows my skepticism in an attempt to find something Romeo and Juliet-ey hear.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When the villainous Henriquez next enters, he's worried that he has raped Violante. Setting aside that there is nothing to prepare the audience for any such action, it's interesting that Henriquez tries to argue that it wasn't rape—even though he admits that "she did not consent" (II.i.37–38) and that "she did resist" (II.i.38):</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_XwoS6PsBviQXdod8vapoaHl-oHpbCZiihXPKg6Puggp6smE0CwwxrWbI0pU6ZdBlUOxHdqQANcac1yDnoHWrVBHXvnUzYK7zUHaKcZNyeQMA3MeLH-LrVx6mKQIpDjXMOwo4DGHjIQxGu6EtoHCjRlQUTk3HR5s4dX5Ka95wUz9kpDSWr95pf5-dP-I" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2297" data-original-width="2886" height="509" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_XwoS6PsBviQXdod8vapoaHl-oHpbCZiihXPKg6Puggp6smE0CwwxrWbI0pU6ZdBlUOxHdqQANcac1yDnoHWrVBHXvnUzYK7zUHaKcZNyeQMA3MeLH-LrVx6mKQIpDjXMOwo4DGHjIQxGu6EtoHCjRlQUTk3HR5s4dX5Ka95wUz9kpDSWr95pf5-dP-I=w640-h509" width="640" /></a></div><br />I would have liked more about that in the introduction—together with some commentary on the shifts from verse to prose and back again. It's rare for a character in Shakespeare to shift in mid-speech. Could this shift (one among many) be indicative of a distinction between Theobald and his source material?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of equal interest are Violante's speeches after the rape:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ9qO4pok3D9wr9BP2oP91fvDZELV4BvGVRfvlQelpWfOhrKQJM_ZQay3W9imxKAO1lD1RpSJo4eNsdQBX4IqQB4DFOiznWbIlq6fiJFAZMTRUNhZmS39_MQun0NwyCepzriCZHcxyU5_yDsMRn9UbyW5CiS65-R5YHDcUjP224FW5aFtQpI-buv9pI0U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2307" data-original-width="1412" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ9qO4pok3D9wr9BP2oP91fvDZELV4BvGVRfvlQelpWfOhrKQJM_ZQay3W9imxKAO1lD1RpSJo4eNsdQBX4IqQB4DFOiznWbIlq6fiJFAZMTRUNhZmS39_MQun0NwyCepzriCZHcxyU5_yDsMRn9UbyW5CiS65-R5YHDcUjP224FW5aFtQpI-buv9pI0U=w392-h640" width="392" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOx99XGf2uqeN501ID7si4J-PbgS2EFavr7ZoSfPA27aQPc527NvQhWPpeDgMwvF55oLcRmJup9WXyVB1yAb1aqEUWNZE2iyAwN3cLTCflot6RhSRvD6Ag-kY8l9C66weSEM6R-A_E3mmaAZ3O8qxwUhJ77qz2hzrAlew0zKLowqBcS8VXiR1sibdgOGE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2297" data-original-width="1359" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOx99XGf2uqeN501ID7si4J-PbgS2EFavr7ZoSfPA27aQPc527NvQhWPpeDgMwvF55oLcRmJup9WXyVB1yAb1aqEUWNZE2iyAwN3cLTCflot6RhSRvD6Ag-kY8l9C66weSEM6R-A_E3mmaAZ3O8qxwUhJ77qz2hzrAlew0zKLowqBcS8VXiR1sibdgOGE=w379-h640" width="379" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM6PnRSFIHmccmQUKCbqzQyWSvPZbeoEqik3wroxVWEwgzNp6L5L4YVw8QezN6OEywyqFyAyrY58xC8UcrNmCnO9L0CdJ3qKLfFwRvmbBtmS-cCTO9wmmMOyNT0TUUstmO2zx6Uo5CsrLac1w6hH3b233IJF0t-K2j-_QmNcyFgiBJha801MFSKykiKrY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2309" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM6PnRSFIHmccmQUKCbqzQyWSvPZbeoEqik3wroxVWEwgzNp6L5L4YVw8QezN6OEywyqFyAyrY58xC8UcrNmCnO9L0CdJ3qKLfFwRvmbBtmS-cCTO9wmmMOyNT0TUUstmO2zx6Uo5CsrLac1w6hH3b233IJF0t-K2j-_QmNcyFgiBJha801MFSKykiKrY=w389-h640" width="389" /></a></div><br />A great weight of tragedy is encapsulated in those few brief lines.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Double Falsehood</i> is not a very successful play, but there's a fair amount of interest in its Arden edition.</div></div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
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Ed. Martin White. The New Mermaids. London: A & C Black, 1982.<hr /><u>Arden of Faversham</u>. Ed. Catherine Richardson. Arden Early Modern Drama. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2022.</span></span><hr /><i>Arden of Faversham</i> is the True Crime Drama of the English Renaissance. Based on the story in Holinshed's <i>Chronicles</i> (supplemented by various ballads, stories, and tales), we learn how Alice Arden and her lover Mosby (and some hired murderers and other interested parties) Murder Thomas Arden, Alice's husband. <div><br /></div><div>The play is fascinating in the way it deals with the plotting of the crime and its eventual fruition. Many failed attempts are made on Arden's life, including those by the comic hit men Black Will and Shakebag. </div><div><br /></div><div>I read the play a few times when I was in graduate school, but I hadn't revisited it for years. But then the Arden Shakespeare put out a new edition, and I couldn't resist.</div><div><br /></div><div>"But hold on a second," I hear you cry. "Who wrote this play? If the Arden Shakespeare has produced an edition, does that mean . . . . Could it be that . . . . You don't think . . . ."</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, yes, part of the interest in the has to do with its authorship, and there are those who think Shakespeare had a hand in it. It seemly likely to be a collaborative play (whether Shakespeare wrote any of it or not), and it was written between 1587 and 1591, which would place it very early in Shakespeare's career.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the points of interest in my current encounter with the play is the way its authorship is addressed in the two scholarly editions I have. The 1982 New Mermaids edition mentions the possibility but doesn't take a strong position on the issue:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq2SOHPt7uS_BjDBNxVMR9rToj-aPJtyRT_6wK8CutxrVhu6_-Jg3ClaMJ5hBPE3djQZHJRLZhDnEmAiL0GLawpX_YQP22g-BUNqSop1yhGo0TX-WnStUHOy90J_rFhUGmXVIcSKvMIq9k3_67AC06HPbMA7VWB8tqx8ihrWz0Bzfuldoy9_LmnkAUKUk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2296" data-original-width="2786" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq2SOHPt7uS_BjDBNxVMR9rToj-aPJtyRT_6wK8CutxrVhu6_-Jg3ClaMJ5hBPE3djQZHJRLZhDnEmAiL0GLawpX_YQP22g-BUNqSop1yhGo0TX-WnStUHOy90J_rFhUGmXVIcSKvMIq9k3_67AC06HPbMA7VWB8tqx8ihrWz0Bzfuldoy9_LmnkAUKUk=w640-h524" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEx5958KcQfayiRmPMUyyPHThrZk5hKxOw16kzDIIswZow6gNOWNijl0l5t5ncDEgxAnRQfqBQ4NQuPwHxiXyMuXnAQbRTgadv-_VCaf4TI3_PdOcpRGq3DY76P2aktOmBh76TId9B5JkEIFHnf67gDFPo2w_nueC-SRl8mwkoBeiZkJWQToAemQK9AqQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2186" data-original-width="2782" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEx5958KcQfayiRmPMUyyPHThrZk5hKxOw16kzDIIswZow6gNOWNijl0l5t5ncDEgxAnRQfqBQ4NQuPwHxiXyMuXnAQbRTgadv-_VCaf4TI3_PdOcpRGq3DY76P2aktOmBh76TId9B5JkEIFHnf67gDFPo2w_nueC-SRl8mwkoBeiZkJWQToAemQK9AqQ=w640-h502" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Arden Early Modern Drama edition spends a lot more time on whether Shakespeare should be considered one of the authors of <i>Arden of Faversham</i>. It comes short of saying anything with any certainty, but it strikes me as presenting a rosier picture of Shakespeare's participation in the play's composition than the New Mermaids edition did:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTBBWy3NxnV2VraUImKxzLJVLmAov89Eri0rqcjkm-NP9PC8QhcZuDeLAChujw4oUUxnITKsfhSQK3CisSimjzbu3mLgSUvwQzn3Mna3fB0TTo6hwG3AFdO3O6ks4s9dRrFOlWY8nqTbevVW3wQXeSqI4kLMkjvYsIoZDhhUlDP6jUsV3aQjGmDq6UHHQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1826" data-original-width="1521" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTBBWy3NxnV2VraUImKxzLJVLmAov89Eri0rqcjkm-NP9PC8QhcZuDeLAChujw4oUUxnITKsfhSQK3CisSimjzbu3mLgSUvwQzn3Mna3fB0TTo6hwG3AFdO3O6ks4s9dRrFOlWY8nqTbevVW3wQXeSqI4kLMkjvYsIoZDhhUlDP6jUsV3aQjGmDq6UHHQ=w533-h640" width="533" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxQ1tVg5zehH1TuwQYP12x_PwNJy4pTIBgl2X4lmWLipJ8mMkz9w9kfluEx4Tji2R2okHZ-6qD3IJDBkCWxLMOTIH66SdRIgAQGu6od9E6_UpVJEGeRrZNqBziLn5WfhwaiIYC04fPXKBBfvo6YmM46mYuTylGaLbX5Lg4lCZAm4MNwLgom7Ab8QqzI8M" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxQ1tVg5zehH1TuwQYP12x_PwNJy4pTIBgl2X4lmWLipJ8mMkz9w9kfluEx4Tji2R2okHZ-6qD3IJDBkCWxLMOTIH66SdRIgAQGu6od9E6_UpVJEGeRrZNqBziLn5WfhwaiIYC04fPXKBBfvo6YmM46mYuTylGaLbX5Lg4lCZAm4MNwLgom7Ab8QqzI8M=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhX-QmvjosFahONRKZDEU-RJWAbdaZbdpIRjDe6TlTQ-7Qlubqq0NfE8PtBUDDepWDik3QhtRdwWEADYZNH48Yf0NadCA7fGfZ8wXJgMDSDDZm3dMhjiQusaeuGO9BKEoaSOMoamg6X6cY4tZTf8PY0cu8N8u8ysXps6jd3xIwlU0pPJQi-HjrUzOx5Ss" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhX-QmvjosFahONRKZDEU-RJWAbdaZbdpIRjDe6TlTQ-7Qlubqq0NfE8PtBUDDepWDik3QhtRdwWEADYZNH48Yf0NadCA7fGfZ8wXJgMDSDDZm3dMhjiQusaeuGO9BKEoaSOMoamg6X6cY4tZTf8PY0cu8N8u8ysXps6jd3xIwlU0pPJQi-HjrUzOx5Ss=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmgVuF2qtaLd4ivzO1JR0ajj_53eGMT1zpuk20eAS9FXhwEpqrG6gkLVdGcgNRAtc6mb3Ng0NSI6vAA9-6gBO2ZRn6LYk3NsQ27ZXMt0TAgRWgVf3G3BeLaDlxl3_AtKNb70lbZ4PLSi0r1aaX9JCxMZ_5isA7rRYNiAQPQFoOozVYsUKyf9x3AqxRI58" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmgVuF2qtaLd4ivzO1JR0ajj_53eGMT1zpuk20eAS9FXhwEpqrG6gkLVdGcgNRAtc6mb3Ng0NSI6vAA9-6gBO2ZRn6LYk3NsQ27ZXMt0TAgRWgVf3G3BeLaDlxl3_AtKNb70lbZ4PLSi0r1aaX9JCxMZ_5isA7rRYNiAQPQFoOozVYsUKyf9x3AqxRI58=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6duItzP_LrK4UF9fRkFXR51odZ-MWAJ9FYrrFXmTPmc0MJM_wMhfK7wYt7bp8Lzwgm9alUUe2u4WsV4YXhy5UG1reXyViB3yaGcz8_CPpGh3VSZBRM1EsHNnrtA_GhSRz-3NHKyIc9Y302YyThap2J5mXgyTYqePmp613s_FDl5xkbq-tSfC06EZhYmo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6duItzP_LrK4UF9fRkFXR51odZ-MWAJ9FYrrFXmTPmc0MJM_wMhfK7wYt7bp8Lzwgm9alUUe2u4WsV4YXhy5UG1reXyViB3yaGcz8_CPpGh3VSZBRM1EsHNnrtA_GhSRz-3NHKyIc9Y302YyThap2J5mXgyTYqePmp613s_FDl5xkbq-tSfC06EZhYmo=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWdpXvexZLUAWZjAXSfVIEpmFy3vJ7CS-yG9iu9ke-9iDgnYJN4YUq0Eo-bwkC6IzRlYzvRvcKOBlAFqapYTPfeFcBKYEYwtS9RjkAXXSKY5Jqtr706lsHdF5rBEdkORR5BYnk2nfenv0fY862wAk-Mo5IYtxdWsAdESSH86S4K_277hPet22jBLJDoaM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWdpXvexZLUAWZjAXSfVIEpmFy3vJ7CS-yG9iu9ke-9iDgnYJN4YUq0Eo-bwkC6IzRlYzvRvcKOBlAFqapYTPfeFcBKYEYwtS9RjkAXXSKY5Jqtr706lsHdF5rBEdkORR5BYnk2nfenv0fY862wAk-Mo5IYtxdWsAdESSH86S4K_277hPet22jBLJDoaM=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You now, no doubt, want to know my take. In re-reading this after many decades of reading Shakespeare left and right, I thought I would surely be able to know for myself—not with the certainty of proof but with the sense of instinct—whether Shakespeare wrote any part of the play or not.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But I don't get a sense one way or the other. I spotted several passages that struck me as Shakespeare-like, but none of them is so quintessentially Shakespeare that it couldn't have been written by another dramatist. And none of the ones I spotted was in Scene 8, often said to be the most likely part for Shakespeare to have written.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The first passage that seemed Shakespearean to me comes from Scene three. The servant Michael, who has been suborned to leave Arden's house unlocked so that the hired murderers can get in and do their job, says this:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEEwlUgChc8YUN6AcE3IBIFcUTqchNvi6EsaWhbX5ruN4zR6fcuL1ledBLf-LByz61r5zyrhwFTzy_CcYu9iEu9xPDdmgkMb3Cal0qGR6w6o_VJEuHQH0yiDA7CJj3-kiP77hnzABEJSQ8ifnQ6Ye0BVsQRluFNOq-mw8msRuLlsjIsbyP-zjtF_ya324" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1412" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEEwlUgChc8YUN6AcE3IBIFcUTqchNvi6EsaWhbX5ruN4zR6fcuL1ledBLf-LByz61r5zyrhwFTzy_CcYu9iEu9xPDdmgkMb3Cal0qGR6w6o_VJEuHQH0yiDA7CJj3-kiP77hnzABEJSQ8ifnQ6Ye0BVsQRluFNOq-mw8msRuLlsjIsbyP-zjtF_ya324=w640-h412" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">To me, that sounds a lot like Macbeth saying </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span>He's here in double trust;</div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,</div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,</div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Who should against his murderer shut the door,</div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Not bear the knife myself. (I.vii.12–16)</div></div></div></blockquote><p>The next one I spotted is from Scene six. Here, Arden is relating a troubling dream to his friend Franklin: </p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-BlqpOWhVqdJZo6_FrUGgGNVVS8l0-Pa_hATRB_kXqHkzkWefXFkvaDgrT_RjgevgaoKQNzRU8H-Hec2GOr8mn6Sd_YOE2WBPcRAFAAU8KjnJfPWh5jnW2KtmUbBwLPYF4dkpPla4k7IIInujQD-3bj1m0tvOURz_zSb1GMhJ0H4ijEt8HpUEshpEqY8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="351" data-original-width="1359" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-BlqpOWhVqdJZo6_FrUGgGNVVS8l0-Pa_hATRB_kXqHkzkWefXFkvaDgrT_RjgevgaoKQNzRU8H-Hec2GOr8mn6Sd_YOE2WBPcRAFAAU8KjnJfPWh5jnW2KtmUbBwLPYF4dkpPla4k7IIInujQD-3bj1m0tvOURz_zSb1GMhJ0H4ijEt8HpUEshpEqY8=w640-h166" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Perhaps when can think of Clarence's dream in <i>Richard III</i>. He says "I, trembling, wak'd, and for a season after / Could not believe but that I was in hell, / Such terrible impression made my dream" (I.iv.61–63).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally, in Scene 14, we have a weak possibility of a Lady Macbeth–like connection to blood that can't be washed away:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNUJcnuTKYK6gHSx3CexPbXka_WMOHdforckMiwyhcnIPKRdgUv85UT079vIYsA9Zm68vuyWPguJTFdzjSqR-jtvPDuDNpdkLaaDSXgB6Ii0fmVq7tRaw8qiSHvxxKJvKuGpSw6cUXdUjwGFsxQ5bvwMFc96nIgcqnhJFw0WzXPYYzyCKL0Ig7HZ0Orhk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="1290" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNUJcnuTKYK6gHSx3CexPbXka_WMOHdforckMiwyhcnIPKRdgUv85UT079vIYsA9Zm68vuyWPguJTFdzjSqR-jtvPDuDNpdkLaaDSXgB6Ii0fmVq7tRaw8qiSHvxxKJvKuGpSw6cUXdUjwGFsxQ5bvwMFc96nIgcqnhJFw0WzXPYYzyCKL0Ig7HZ0Orhk=w640-h512" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That's not much to go on, clearly. But it's nice to think that Shakespeare's authorship isn't utterly ruled out by my experience.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally, the drama is great. After Arden's murder, various characters start to put together clues—somewhat à la an Agatha Christy mystery with Ardens steadfast friend Franklin serving as <i>de facto</i> detective. In terms of the "True Crime" genre, that section is fascinating and worth providing in full:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhca9bnee8kHlRYCrxaU0S2zC9iZGutQa7goEqCmF1qLAY06P9376ob2ptA_OkD9dhO3DzM0vBstkbbz835D2BPYhsZaVrhAKYJRqoI6O5-UhEuBRRzW0Xd8I2KrhJQanYMmcaexo6CyMFCn9vE_yMCBImy83VfBq3H6c4XaxxDkvUycUPqSSUcItMr8qs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhca9bnee8kHlRYCrxaU0S2zC9iZGutQa7goEqCmF1qLAY06P9376ob2ptA_OkD9dhO3DzM0vBstkbbz835D2BPYhsZaVrhAKYJRqoI6O5-UhEuBRRzW0Xd8I2KrhJQanYMmcaexo6CyMFCn9vE_yMCBImy83VfBq3H6c4XaxxDkvUycUPqSSUcItMr8qs=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhx_mwvQG9_hHPNZpvr-pwc8RiawB555RpCsUPG8q6sYVJpxBEH3P5VwkqJTl-cJfGwXQZZ2m910k37WriPu3md6F_1LfC3eNgTQx9C-ex22WZpvX8teoSW9SXoAteWtiFYD9YImCC7tVJCCBL69E4krf5ZNx3PoSuirZsOG43rydC4QD5PDDYmavITWcw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhx_mwvQG9_hHPNZpvr-pwc8RiawB555RpCsUPG8q6sYVJpxBEH3P5VwkqJTl-cJfGwXQZZ2m910k37WriPu3md6F_1LfC3eNgTQx9C-ex22WZpvX8teoSW9SXoAteWtiFYD9YImCC7tVJCCBL69E4krf5ZNx3PoSuirZsOG43rydC4QD5PDDYmavITWcw=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyHPZPNM_CGGnm3eAHLLGvgVS9mS9Urq9z5GCXA7I1lxPGraqGh2wIFFqFaaHmyzGxx46UNzUpcjeP0OkFELqzvtK8mQapsk2pOEZIig29vi3lCxOJWY24CutRjwMi8ILToDkcigBHET1tfNhWViIxr2AMlitDwINo0SL2m2zLeON2FcQfHtzBOcyHWic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyHPZPNM_CGGnm3eAHLLGvgVS9mS9Urq9z5GCXA7I1lxPGraqGh2wIFFqFaaHmyzGxx46UNzUpcjeP0OkFELqzvtK8mQapsk2pOEZIig29vi3lCxOJWY24CutRjwMi8ILToDkcigBHET1tfNhWViIxr2AMlitDwINo0SL2m2zLeON2FcQfHtzBOcyHWic=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgH0EDv6Z-pTGYOSKtXxwew2PDclnW0vAGWF7co6YYRmmbzLTgusZcTdcQFawQBbyuXsSFGTiiDcZgiGc4Y_PfIcV5PP3xQmJaw40kVkMTlTMvvPmPpfr4chenAUatb9iDYWj1IqNvby7Ul-PRlB-gJYzAIFg742cyg93rVw57z04ZYbbDbBFGP6yE6vNs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgH0EDv6Z-pTGYOSKtXxwew2PDclnW0vAGWF7co6YYRmmbzLTgusZcTdcQFawQBbyuXsSFGTiiDcZgiGc4Y_PfIcV5PP3xQmJaw40kVkMTlTMvvPmPpfr4chenAUatb9iDYWj1IqNvby7Ul-PRlB-gJYzAIFg742cyg93rVw57z04ZYbbDbBFGP6yE6vNs=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh52izWLU1QC2xqP8deT4Jkm8HnSQlZEkyn7von3Bt55bQqMlTHMHKjVho0caCyjcLJaLhj2RX_QAyiLBjTw8eNj3eSsDj6HKg1tUlitm_7fpCL2uppbQmPKMOIpYSsKGx9sxn1MIFM3np-_qwEuVGZ3JvDIGLy8_etxFfwvrJHZ0yfq-YyAuBEwXW6hmg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2652" data-original-width="3431" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh52izWLU1QC2xqP8deT4Jkm8HnSQlZEkyn7von3Bt55bQqMlTHMHKjVho0caCyjcLJaLhj2RX_QAyiLBjTw8eNj3eSsDj6HKg1tUlitm_7fpCL2uppbQmPKMOIpYSsKGx9sxn1MIFM3np-_qwEuVGZ3JvDIGLy8_etxFfwvrJHZ0yfq-YyAuBEwXW6hmg=w640-h492" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">It lovely how we get the footprints, the blood stains, the murder weapon, and the stolen items all revealed and pointing toward the guilty parties.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I was very glad to revisit <i>Arden of Faversham</i>, and I'd highly recommend reading it yourself in the new Ardent Early Modern Drama edition.</div></div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the books from amazon.com<br />
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</div></i></div>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-69421369949751847772023-12-01T07:00:00.026-06:002024-01-12T12:40:30.219-06:00Shakespeare in FoxTrot's Death by Field Trip<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiezNBKi3_fU4Wwe9qzw4Z8BKcIf7__GJZTs8oWfIv1aMD4Ys6_S1-DdTzWlQsQddW63oa-Qs1xChjGa4yoLYbtXa2edxEpTcv-k3Y8jg3Jqtdr4WaWHqwNwpprPLR1dCUcR_67_iV1ejhGHK-wR4fxWEaMVdsJnJQBDCBRaJ3LOL1rDNoe-VjOQ8FEqo" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="588" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiezNBKi3_fU4Wwe9qzw4Z8BKcIf7__GJZTs8oWfIv1aMD4Ys6_S1-DdTzWlQsQddW63oa-Qs1xChjGa4yoLYbtXa2edxEpTcv-k3Y8jg3Jqtdr4WaWHqwNwpprPLR1dCUcR_67_iV1ejhGHK-wR4fxWEaMVdsJnJQBDCBRaJ3LOL1rDNoe-VjOQ8FEqo" width="188" /></a></div>Amend, Bill. <u>Death by Field Trip</u>. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2001.</span></span><hr />Moving forward one volume in our search for all the Shakespeare in FoxTrot, we come to <i>Death by Field Trip</i>.<div><br /></div><div>Like all FoxTrot books, it's great fun.</div><div><br /></div><div>But it is a little lacking in the Shakespeare.</div><div><br /></div><div>We do have one solid comic about Peter and his thoughts about studying <i>Hamlet</i>—particularly on such a lovely day:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUU_HGNxU2qeeXgRykCLenev_mZYDKR6TGtpb559LO-WRrWGvXeU4F7539QusXO4crW-8-o9h3j5xoPRX_ltJcRkibfOw1wkQyTOlBhiDSfE0OCwpSMT_NLv-ZxSdkL-fvc13F9DGxTRjRBOIqxtKmNSLh-JlgvE64_1dvDW891tSurnqKNUBSt4Elgmk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="814" data-original-width="2354" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUU_HGNxU2qeeXgRykCLenev_mZYDKR6TGtpb559LO-WRrWGvXeU4F7539QusXO4crW-8-o9h3j5xoPRX_ltJcRkibfOw1wkQyTOlBhiDSfE0OCwpSMT_NLv-ZxSdkL-fvc13F9DGxTRjRBOIqxtKmNSLh-JlgvE64_1dvDW891tSurnqKNUBSt4Elgmk=w640-h226" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And I'll admit I'm stretching a bit with this next comic. Shakespeare isn't mentioned—just the generic term "poem." But I prefer to imagine that they're all Shakespeare sonnets, which neither detracts from nor adds to the joke: </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_g04jSwuNwa8IHvLR8bI2pPfDZW_-jdPdnaWkoU6jcVFBiRTlZJb2_2FqA1dUFPWdr3nWzqLF8IYbpgbd1rtj4RF8ZZg9Jpc18N9JbyxoFt3yjZBBgUlrtFyxlCtojRdRKtAQVI4uxYavSjwd4a8MPiy9pSNL2-gqlgZ02njJPDJUKlkfCYzBpDojL78" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="778" data-original-width="2361" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_g04jSwuNwa8IHvLR8bI2pPfDZW_-jdPdnaWkoU6jcVFBiRTlZJb2_2FqA1dUFPWdr3nWzqLF8IYbpgbd1rtj4RF8ZZg9Jpc18N9JbyxoFt3yjZBBgUlrtFyxlCtojRdRKtAQVI4uxYavSjwd4a8MPiy9pSNL2-gqlgZ02njJPDJUKlkfCYzBpDojL78=w640-h212" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I'm afraid that's it—but we'll try another volume next week.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Update: </b>In re-reading the volume in question, I discovered an additional Shakespeare-related comic. It's subtle, but I'm sure you'll agree that the Shakespeare is there. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTOZ1nrJRrWq-93OU4Lp5cdmtMqea3nXOz7jx1OgWXHCDHdSP-ACDa52o2QfwnwR31w_k5FtoyKGIM8BYHkhE0hUoLb4QwYREJNBAKCA64tznR7mLBr38BIv8ejHJpNgF2zmPnJK9bLAObJZoLrQSfAeXxq3E8LuWQWrmilzKooiSCpuTN65Q3blMBOkY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="813" data-original-width="2391" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTOZ1nrJRrWq-93OU4Lp5cdmtMqea3nXOz7jx1OgWXHCDHdSP-ACDa52o2QfwnwR31w_k5FtoyKGIM8BYHkhE0hUoLb4QwYREJNBAKCA64tznR7mLBr38BIv8ejHJpNgF2zmPnJK9bLAObJZoLrQSfAeXxq3E8LuWQWrmilzKooiSCpuTN65Q3blMBOkY=w640-h218" width="640" /></a></div><br />Some readers might consider the line about Leonardo DiCaprio to be connected to the 1997 film <i>Titanic</i>, in which DiCaprio played a role, but it's more likely to allude to the 1996 <i>Romeo + Juliet</i> with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the title roles. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Support for this claim can be found in two quotations from Shakespeare's play. The first is from Romeo, and it comes toward the beginning of the balcony scene. In expressing how desparate he is to spend time with Juliet, he says,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far<br />As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,<br />I would adventure for such merchandise. (II.ii.82–84)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The FoxTrot comic picks up and expands this simile, implying that Romeo would even go as far as the deepest sea to adventure for the "merchandise" that is Juliet.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The section supporting quotation is from Juliet, who famously says this about her love for Romeo:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">My bounty is as boundless as the sea,<br />My love as deep; the more I give to thee,<br />The more I have, for both are infinite. (II.ii.133–35)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There's much humor in the disparity between these images of the vastidity of the sea and the aquarium in FoxTrot—and we find it when we see the subtle Shakespeare allusion at play here.<br /></div></div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
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Perf. Nicola Walker, Jamie Sives, and Katie Leung. Dir. Fiona Walton. </i><u style="font-style: italic;">Annika</u><i>. Season 1, episode 6. Alibi (later, PBS). 21 September 2021. DVD. PBS (Direct), 2022.</i></span></span><hr /><i>Annika</i> is a modern police procedural set in Scotland. It has some things that are typical of the genre—the detective who is good with technology, a tendency toward dark humor, interpersonal conflict that leads to deepening relationships, mysterious deaths, and so on—but what stands out is its decision to have the main detective break the fourth wall so frequently.<div><br /></div><div>Within that, there is often a literary element. Annika often explains to the camera literary plots that connect—sometimes substantially, sometimes tangentially—to the investigation. In the first episode, for example, someone is murdered with a harpoon. Not unexpectedly, we get some <i>Moby-Dick</i> allusions.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the end of the first season, Shakespeare's <i>Twelfth Night</i> is connected to the episode's plot.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Note: Spoilers follow. Stop here and watch the episode (which I highly recommend) before proceeding.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>But the investigation doesn't precisely follow the plot of <i>Twelfth Night</i>. I keep looking for twins, but to no avail. We do get elements of mistaken identity when someone intentionally pretends to be what they're not in order to swindle someone else. In the clip below, you'll see our villain say, "People should just be who they say they are," which could be part of a theme from <i>Twelfth Night</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here are the relevant Shakespeare-related clips, including a brief reference to <i>Hamlet</i> as a bonus: <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='399' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyOd1hfkjoP0ZNJOiQezS4OJIJpZdn8MWkwr7wDRCbbsBH2ormvhnN5tAyKkVxRf5wrP6-McMomOYpNM5z3rQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I'm fond of these Shakespearean asides to the audience (Shakespearean in that they deal with Shakespeare but also Shakespearean in reflecting the practice on Shakespeare's stage), even when the well-read Annika gets it slightly wrong. She's right about "petard" meaning, according to the OED, "A small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blow in a door, gate, etc., or to make a hole in a wall," but it's etymology is from the French meaning "<span style="text-align: center;">small firework which makes a loud bang" (which, I suppose, could be stretched to apply to flatulance . . . but I digress).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">I'm fond of the show at large. The writing and the literary references are a key part of that, but the plots are intriguing and the characters engaging, and the acting is particularly fine.</span></div></div><hr /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Links: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13886464/?ref_=ttep_ep6" target="_blank">The Episode at IMDB</a>.</i></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
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Perf. Charlie Cox, Sophie Winkleman, and Colin Starkey. Dir. Bill Anderson. <u>Lewis</u>. Season 1, episode 1. BBC. 30 July 2066. DVD. PDX, 2008.</span></span><hr />Having enjoyed the <i>Endeavor</i> series quite a bit and having a vague familiarity with the <i>Morse</i> series to which it is a prequel (and having not enjoyed it too terribly much), I decided to try the <i>Lewis</i> series, which is <i>Morse</i>'s sequel.<div><br /></div><div>Right off the bat, we get some Shakespeare. A woman named Regan Peveril (her name may be an allusion to <i>King Lear</i>, but it's conceivably just coincidence), a brilliant mathematics student, has been murdered. As we get into the case, which involves upper-level maths and high-end automobiles, we start to suspect that a fellow student, Daniel Griffon, is the guilty party. He's a somewhat awkward young man whose father died and whose uncle took over his father's company. And the uncle's name is Rex.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ringing any bells with anyone out there? It's a bit more subtle than having the uncle named "Claude," but still. And then we learn that his mother's name is Trudi. And then we learn that Rex is the younger of a set of twins, always passed over while everything went to his older (if only slightly) brother. And Daniel suspects him of having tampered with the brakes in his father's car, leading to the accident that caused his death.</div><div><br /></div><div>There's a friend of the family named Tom Pollock, and he has a daughter—Jessica—who is in love with Daniel. This gives us the possibility of an Ophelia analogue.</div><div><br /></div><div>More incidentally, one character asks another if, when his aunt died, she "made a good end," which is what Ophelia, in her madness, says about her father.</div><div><br /></div><div>And here's one more quick crossover. Michael Maloney plays the role of Igor Denniston, the maths professor. I know him best for two <i>Hamlet</i>-related roles: Laertes in the Kenneth Branagh <i>Hamlet</i> and the director/ actor in <i>A Midwinter's Tale</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Note: Probable Spoilers from this point forward.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Years earlier, Morse had investigate a case involving Daniel Griffin. It turns out that Daniel tampered with the brakes in his uncle's car in an attempt to gain revenge on his uncle. But nothing came of it—except a crypic note alongside one of Morse's beloved crossword puzzles: "Polo not king after all"</div><div><br /></div><div>Later, we learn that the reason Daniel thinks his uncle killed his father—despite the police case indicating that there were no problems with the brakes and ruling the death an accident—was that his father appeared to him in a vision and told him that his brother had murdered him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Eventually, all the clues start to come together. Secrets are revealed. Our Ophelia analogue walks into a river with her pockets full of rocks because of one of those revelations. And it all wraps up.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's a fairly-lengthy clip with the relevant <i>Hamlet</i> material:</div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='399' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxl4DeieHFmu8v7zLHeYbBEP2yfuzNEWATXu52YOEfWGT2nbUN5SUDNJUkaOMRGlG-rh0zpP1GccSM6C1T1LA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm not going to give you spoilers beyond what I've already given. But the episode plays cleverly and amusingly with the plot of <i>Hamlet</i>—with some important twists to keep us guessing. Track it down and give it a try.</div><hr /><i>Links: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469870/?ref_=ttep_ep0" target="_blank">The Episode at IMDB</a>.<br /><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Inspector-Lewis-Series-1/dp/B0019N5A9I?crid=1L91Z1G0VPZJG&keywords=lewis+season+1&qid=1701185244&refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650304011&rnid=2650303011&s=movies-tv&sprefix=lewis+season+1%2Caps%2C115&sr=1-1&linkCode=li2&tag=bardfilm-20&linkId=b7d4b5df89a8c10555b1b817b57b4150&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B0019N5A9I&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=bardfilm-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=bardfilm-20&language=en_US&l=li2&o=1&a=B0019N5A9I" style="border: medium; margin: 0px;" width="1" /></div></i></div>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-44638672799036553122023-11-24T07:00:00.005-06:002023-11-24T07:00:00.136-06:00Shakespeare in FoxTrot's Think iFruity<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg54sm6sI9bsRiW-tIZaXEjNyf8LOOZzhkfas2m4Mf0iXC9RumyIkjSD7H9VM22u67kvy4aS6yYfDsPJyYh-W9vZnAHzNoOrlYChHjsNrAiqDGoQ3ZlIwuW3y48v5v6j4ma2rEZRM4LhLmp4F77-xxUEEa2q8dOwznKSb-DOhEvKbGyikfBQOozcRAfnso" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="571" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg54sm6sI9bsRiW-tIZaXEjNyf8LOOZzhkfas2m4Mf0iXC9RumyIkjSD7H9VM22u67kvy4aS6yYfDsPJyYh-W9vZnAHzNoOrlYChHjsNrAiqDGoQ3ZlIwuW3y48v5v6j4ma2rEZRM4LhLmp4F77-xxUEEa2q8dOwznKSb-DOhEvKbGyikfBQOozcRAfnso" width="185" /></a></div>Amend, Bill. <u>Think iFruity</u>. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000.</span></span><hr /><p>Moving one book forward in our push to cover all the Shakespeare in FoxTrot, we find two brief connections.</p><p></p><p>The first is the usual paraphrase (or, to be harsher, misquotation) of a passage from <i>1 Henry IV</i>. Late in that play, Falstaff says, "The better pat of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have sav'd my life" (V.iv.119-21). In FoxTrot, Andi tries to remind Jason that "Discretion is the better part of valor" when he's angry about his video game performance:<br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwZr2jhKiwg95tYIqNRny4HeG4m5J2WmF5qLaBy5bP_O_RZAP5q22oHf85nl16pQaXAKdrdg22_hgL8DuAg31oQiFR7mAyt7xTLRhTFoNKlZW3YDNehndfJG5Gw6KcDPblOHyU0NHno63BaJM5TVI1bDdWXC0PzioTwx72ZODm-s-_v0T_g0u8urDXSXE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="824" data-original-width="2386" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwZr2jhKiwg95tYIqNRny4HeG4m5J2WmF5qLaBy5bP_O_RZAP5q22oHf85nl16pQaXAKdrdg22_hgL8DuAg31oQiFR7mAyt7xTLRhTFoNKlZW3YDNehndfJG5Gw6KcDPblOHyU0NHno63BaJM5TVI1bDdWXC0PzioTwx72ZODm-s-_v0T_g0u8urDXSXE=w640-h222" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We also have Paige's overjoyed response to her completing her math exam:<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOJO1iD0BGZmS_LMJJyfNM6BKYbZRYBhyb1r89SXTzkRdalIjE_128WbYic0FIzN9U-hvsIjfGzV59NDQ4mbVuE8cgkifl6jLv2e_ekpxpIPops6pphFhR4cmshPbJOq4evSLWOIo-iK_2LBF3L4VprDFXmINYmiBcAsV4qBkQPo63dfTEnoc15BuYs1Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="816" data-original-width="2393" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOJO1iD0BGZmS_LMJJyfNM6BKYbZRYBhyb1r89SXTzkRdalIjE_128WbYic0FIzN9U-hvsIjfGzV59NDQ4mbVuE8cgkifl6jLv2e_ekpxpIPops6pphFhR4cmshPbJOq4evSLWOIo-iK_2LBF3L4VprDFXmINYmiBcAsV4qBkQPo63dfTEnoc15BuYs1Q=w640-h218" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Again, it's not quite as much Shakespeare as I'd like, but 'tis enough—'twill serve.<br /></div><hr /><i>Links: <a href="http://bardfilm.blogspot.com" target="_blank">The Film at IMDB</a>.<br /><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Think-Ifruity-Collection-Bill-Amend/dp/0740704540?crid=3B0KWVXRT80NF&keywords=Think+iFruity&qid=1700064345&s=books&sprefix=think+ifruity%2Cstripbooks%2C157&sr=1-1&linkCode=li2&tag=bardfilm-20&linkId=791319cdaf98444d89bb8beab164a845&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0740704540&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=bardfilm-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=bardfilm-20&language=en_US&l=li2&o=1&a=0740704540" style="border: medium; margin: 0px;" width="1" /></div></i>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-11979940819575929422023-11-20T09:15:00.000-06:002023-11-20T09:15:00.140-06:00Shakespearean Deep Cuts from The Office<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrs6uiWYFlIEEDCraJXLneS9khnGLSEcXsxXaQEPf-6aHR5psdP7h_PI6Z_CnrEx0b0af7qKrrA83VXvbvK24MctZErVg9yLwH5qXekpu7hVqYnBnAVGfS63U7JySYtkdws9KZ2au0Po9NdmXRcmx8hEU9xEecY2xpPD6siYBBubJx23kk-_ZsDMmkcuw" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="1386" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrs6uiWYFlIEEDCraJXLneS9khnGLSEcXsxXaQEPf-6aHR5psdP7h_PI6Z_CnrEx0b0af7qKrrA83VXvbvK24MctZErVg9yLwH5qXekpu7hVqYnBnAVGfS63U7JySYtkdws9KZ2au0Po9NdmXRcmx8hEU9xEecY2xpPD6siYBBubJx23kk-_ZsDMmkcuw" width="320" /></a></div>"Broke." By Charlie Grandy. Perf. Steve Carell. Dir. PSteve Carell. <u>The Office</u>. Season 5, episode 23. NBC. 23 April 2009. Deleted Scene. DVD. Universal Studios, 2009.</span></span><hr /><p>Having covered the overt and canonical Shakespeare-related material in <i>The Office</i>, it's exciting to discover even more material waiting in the deleted scenes.</p><p>In this episode (which aired on the date we commemorate Shakespeare's birth), the small Michael Scott Paper Company is going up against the much larger Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, and it feels like David against Goliath:</p><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='399' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxXnShiSMQOJ5RrscFPLXDwbD302kYUYhRojZstRWqi4lNXKblSMW5luY5yUi32MNEeEB893K0lwo7ETrt8yQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Michael, Pam, and Ryan are each David, and they're going up against another David—David Wallace, the CEO—but that David is really Goliath. The Shakespeare comes in the last analogy: Charles (the manager of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin) is Othello, apparently for no better reason than that Michael needs to reach for a person from classic literature who is black.<br /></div><hr /><i>Links: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1268727/" target="_blank">The Episode at IMDB</a>.<br /><br />
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</div></div>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-58674039582459576152023-11-16T07:00:00.079-06:002023-11-16T08:32:20.963-06:00Book Note: Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMIp5tYWhf-lctNJC6ul9vSu2VPyAwqVIVAhm_p9eMhhEV9Fixh5kghoEgVrXgPeT_2x3d-lkfdQrDptUU0GnMFZPwTMmLJ90s1PX3TvqOiwjnVOdAUfJC-WYC5d4LDW6ky0z2HqfzMF841YkUKnT5KyoGqf4hcymUgJJgbp9x_jS5oENA7LueaOdG4R0" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2637" data-original-width="1652" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMIp5tYWhf-lctNJC6ul9vSu2VPyAwqVIVAhm_p9eMhhEV9Fixh5kghoEgVrXgPeT_2x3d-lkfdQrDptUU0GnMFZPwTMmLJ90s1PX3TvqOiwjnVOdAUfJC-WYC5d4LDW6ky0z2HqfzMF841YkUKnT5KyoGqf4hcymUgJJgbp9x_jS5oENA7LueaOdG4R0" width="151" /></a></div>Smith, Emma. <u>Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book</u>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.</span></span><hr />This year marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of <i>Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies</i>, and that naturally comes with a great deal of study and celebration.<div><i><br /></i></div><div>It's hard to determine a specific birthday for the First Folio, but the date it was entered into the Stationers' Register might be a good one: November 8, 1623 (see the entry and read more about it <a href="https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/stationers-register-entry-first-folio-16-shakespeares-comedies-histories-and#:~:text=The%20First%20Folio%2C%20which%20represents,Company%20on%20November%208%2C%201623" target="_blank">here</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div>Since I totally missed that, perhaps the date of the first recorded sale of the volume would be in order. Sir Edward Dering bought a copy on December 5, 1623, and I learned that information from Emma Smith's marvelous book <i>Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book</i> (2).</div><div><br /></div><div>Smith's account of the First Folio is both scholarly and approachable. I recommend it highly for experts and enthusiasts alike. With great attention to contemporary documents and a wealth of anecdotes, Smith covers five different ways of looking at the Folio: Owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. Each of these separate chapters is fascinating and takes us on a four-hundred-year journey with those subjects as the focus.</div><div><br /></div><div>I found it hard to extract sample passages from such a full and varied text. Should I show Smith's analyses of how people annotated their First Folios over the years? Should I show the work of the cryptographers who found codes embedded in the First Folio texts in particular? Should I provide something about how actors embraced (or didn't) the First Folio texts for performance?</div><div><br /></div><div>All that is there, but, instead, I'll provide the part of Smith's introduction where she covers the scope of the book:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUcj7MB8GqEEEEYcJzz1trrDruuV-0HV2p4DlXkIQfEz-iQRbSeU8KU8Vvt6k0qxu-hjGCnFpVTxm5OCMrHFN14VfThbGkN6S4K9lSZ9_6Afs3qblkP5qpNGiyKN84VojNreTJxLqCiBFzlslOPOR9Rs7ssArMwGVKiRuJVAtXQ1PtQnboXKn3o92kY-A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1186" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUcj7MB8GqEEEEYcJzz1trrDruuV-0HV2p4DlXkIQfEz-iQRbSeU8KU8Vvt6k0qxu-hjGCnFpVTxm5OCMrHFN14VfThbGkN6S4K9lSZ9_6Afs3qblkP5qpNGiyKN84VojNreTJxLqCiBFzlslOPOR9Rs7ssArMwGVKiRuJVAtXQ1PtQnboXKn3o92kY-A=w640-h438" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVF9rIZ1kt-1a8cv1Zyudf4YoOU20TkvlHg9pB-ZlzUq7bAoIHrhVA_0er24pieEHdL-dOvVDoUwneDqzEEPCgdxNw9kaWiut0ocl-o9mNB8NXn6lMOcgHo-ubkfrcNeZnIowtAXL0GYaldvkr-kKFnzxl-RqrnpVOeXi3xKh2rwBO27iciaEoEAfJ_Z0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1851" data-original-width="1184" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVF9rIZ1kt-1a8cv1Zyudf4YoOU20TkvlHg9pB-ZlzUq7bAoIHrhVA_0er24pieEHdL-dOvVDoUwneDqzEEPCgdxNw9kaWiut0ocl-o9mNB8NXn6lMOcgHo-ubkfrcNeZnIowtAXL0GYaldvkr-kKFnzxl-RqrnpVOeXi3xKh2rwBO27iciaEoEAfJ_Z0=w411-h640" width="411" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVonGVgqi6azGlYVHLRXhT-tSnHsdMcqx7LKWXmScP7_kjbyN20Ok4rF_NVNnRF7kak185lRY_dWx9sA1pUb-RwD5Qs3US-x59RDZpdgj-J-aCu5CW72Sd0do1kn6Nz-D_aUbIyQuhsExHWNlBsW4eExOThSOel96ZkW_gTmtBB14J-stB20HclRrk3L0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1211" height="559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVonGVgqi6azGlYVHLRXhT-tSnHsdMcqx7LKWXmScP7_kjbyN20Ok4rF_NVNnRF7kak185lRY_dWx9sA1pUb-RwD5Qs3US-x59RDZpdgj-J-aCu5CW72Sd0do1kn6Nz-D_aUbIyQuhsExHWNlBsW4eExOThSOel96ZkW_gTmtBB14J-stB20HclRrk3L0=w640-h559" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book</i> is a terrific study of the amazing First Folio, and it's a terrific way to celebrate the book's four hundredth birthday.</div></div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
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</div></i></div>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-77757642468889715942023-11-15T08:27:00.003-06:002023-11-15T08:32:16.487-06:00A Tiny Bit of Shakespeare in a Friends Subplot<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAZOs7sZnhu20LxY-giJXjioehM5-WdZ_iRCEWRzxpgy9kBzOeAmL0JTrolJL-xTVBGBFflU52GkPA77-laOO2H0N_n4HvzWXa1jP9O2afzKCGiwC_CAgQHMppSsgF9-gbTKKZ7RdAD9sZ70nxvudu3TaQmgkeDg88CzpZuqDxXrjCNH2c0i5mBr0QocI" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1744" data-original-width="1216" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAZOs7sZnhu20LxY-giJXjioehM5-WdZ_iRCEWRzxpgy9kBzOeAmL0JTrolJL-xTVBGBFflU52GkPA77-laOO2H0N_n4HvzWXa1jP9O2afzKCGiwC_CAgQHMppSsgF9-gbTKKZ7RdAD9sZ70nxvudu3TaQmgkeDg88CzpZuqDxXrjCNH2c0i5mBr0QocI" width="167" /></a></div>"The One with the Fake Monica." By Adam Chase and Ira Ungerleider. Perf. Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and Philip Rayburn Smith. Dir. Gail Mancuso. <u>Friends</u>. Seaons 1, episode 21. NBC. 27 April 1996. DVD. Studio Distribution Services, 2010.</span></span><hr /><p><a href="https://www.shakespearegeek.com/blog" target="_blank">ShakespeareGeek</a> surprised me recently by asking if I had seen the <i>Friends</i> episode where Joey auditions for the role of Mercutio in a production of <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>. I remembered the small reference to Lady Macbeth (for which, <a href="https://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2012/08/friends-and-lady-macbeth.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>). And I knew that I myself had raised the question of what role Joey played in <i>Macbeth</i> (for which, <a href="https://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2019/07/what-role-did-friends-joey-play-in.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>). Beyond that, I knew nothing.</p><p>I didn't rest long in my ignorance. At the end of "The One with the Fake Monica," ShakespeareGeek told me, we see Joey start an audition for Mercutio.</p><p></p><p>Let me set the scene. Joey Tribbiani's agent has suggested that he take on a stage name that doesn't sound quite so Italian. Chandler, as a joke, suggests "Joe Stalin." And when he realizes that Joey has no idea who that is, he keeps the joke going—even suggesting that he go with "Joseph" instead of "Joe."</p><p>Later in the episode, Joey complains that there's already a guy named Joseph Stalin and that he wasn't particularly nice.</p><p>Finally, during the closing credits, we see Joey auditioning for Mercutio:<br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='399' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwTCx368-3DrlGckhVb4kMCd-fM_ZFXE5-1EJiMrfICiC7yiRIS-IUWALxQ2IO5_EEQKDNUA7l-xpErQsSNng' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And there's the joke. Chandler has convinced Joey that a good stage name would be "Holden McGroin."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But remember that we got there by way of Shakespeare (and, of course, by way of <a href="https://www.shakespearegeek.com/blog" target="_blank">ShakespeareGeek</a>).<br /></div><hr /><i>Links: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583603/" target="_blank">The Episode at IMDB</a>.<br /><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Friends-Season-1-Jennifer-Aniston/dp/B003TNW02G?crid=3QNSY7C4RW4Q4&keywords=friends+season+1&qid=1700056182&sprefix=friends+season+1%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-3&linkCode=li2&tag=bardfilm-20&linkId=4aa6fcfe103c0014d59dd6fd7c9ac733&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=B003TNW02G&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=bardfilm-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=bardfilm-20&language=en_US&l=li2&o=1&a=B003TNW02G" style="border: medium; margin: 0px;" width="1" /></div></i>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-57988432300105219352023-10-30T13:53:00.006-05:002023-10-31T06:50:39.699-05:00A Brief Quote from Hamlet in a Sherlock Holmes–Related Episode of Star Trek (and it's Not the Quote You're Thinking of)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvZDY2W2xW0AawvFtpd4NwLlP9tyqgHjBhdmZ9v_rffrtWL7o-KejW45wJLhSjPZdMPWPMwXY-1VSYHvbyY60RtpQUNxdl3dJNPm-N8clbNdueUF_1WaC1k7iJUKHiDfhJdTyzGckwVo/s1600/Data+Quoting+The+Game+is+Afoot.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5773565597346998354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixvZDY2W2xW0AawvFtpd4NwLlP9tyqgHjBhdmZ9v_rffrtWL7o-KejW45wJLhSjPZdMPWPMwXY-1VSYHvbyY60RtpQUNxdl3dJNPm-N8clbNdueUF_1WaC1k7iJUKHiDfhJdTyzGckwVo/s400/Data+Quoting+The+Game+is+Afoot.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 267px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 400px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">“Elementary, Dear Data.” By Brian Alan Lane. Perf. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Diana Muldaur, and Brent Spiner. Dir. Rob Bowman. <u>Star Trek: The Next Generation</u>. Season 2, episode 3. Syndicated television. 3 December 1988. DVD. Paramount, 2002.</span></span><br />
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I've spent (probably) far more time than I should compiling all the Shakespeare references in <i>Star Trek</i> (for which, <a href="http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2009/06/shakespeare-and-star-trek-complete.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>). And every time I think I've reached the end, one more quotation or allusion or reference comes my way.<br />
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I recently finished reading Sir Patrick Stewart's <i>Making it So</i>, a fascining memoir that has even more Shakespeare than <i>Star Trek</i>. I also occasionally listen to audiobooks or television shows when I'm having trouble sleeping. The former led me to listening to the latter this week. In other words, I wasn't setting out to re-watch all the episodes of <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation</i>, which makes it very serindipitous that I happened to hear a Shakespeare quote that I hadn't noticed before. <div><br /></div><div>The quote occurs in the first Sherlock Holmes episode—the one where Data quotes Sherlock Holmes quoting <i>Henry V</i> (for which, <a href="https://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-few-final-fragments-of-shakespeare-in.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>). Let's give it a try:<br />
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There you have it! A Sherlock Holmes–Related Episode of <i>Star Trek</i> with a brief quote from Hamlet's father's ghost: "Murder most fowl" comes in Act I, scene v, line 27.<br />
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</div>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-82293258832371132972023-10-06T10:32:00.004-05:002023-10-06T10:32:28.150-05:00Shakespeare in Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSnEiZ1AFXhJ7a5S3iieMS_KYXUcqSZMVT10Pl-L2ZGfVI9TKozwN8mAgjGzfGo-RyGoRk5S7lACwNizX5Tvyhx-9qEAztBSRmhXSI_3_lu2cBu761HNleDjR2Y3_GOQDBMXKbrNWGgO6qB5riChCqFbE6QXttUCtfXIIC0Zxhe5UNg2D5UFVcPxlyfPM" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2491" data-original-width="1652" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSnEiZ1AFXhJ7a5S3iieMS_KYXUcqSZMVT10Pl-L2ZGfVI9TKozwN8mAgjGzfGo-RyGoRk5S7lACwNizX5Tvyhx-9qEAztBSRmhXSI_3_lu2cBu761HNleDjR2Y3_GOQDBMXKbrNWGgO6qB5riChCqFbE6QXttUCtfXIIC0Zxhe5UNg2D5UFVcPxlyfPM" width="160" /></a></div>Bradbury, Ray. <u>The Illustrated Man</u>. New York: </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011.</i></span><hr />Since this summer, I've been re-reading (or reading, in some cases) the works of Ray Bradbury. I was amazed anew at <i>The Martian Chronicles</i>. I'm delightedly and agonizingly in the middle of <i>Fahrenheit 451</i> once more. And I read <i>The Illustrated Man</i> for the first time.<div><br /></div><div>In that volume—which is a loosely-connected series of stories, some previously published—I found some Shakespeare.</div><div><br /></div><div>In a story entitled "The Exiles" (which had previously been published under the title "The Mad Wizards of Mars"—see below), we switch between two settings: (1) Men on a rocket ship bound for Mars with the purpose of eradicating forever the books that Earth has banned and (2) The inhabitants of Mars itself. In this later group, we find the authors who have been banned and their characters.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Martians (not really Martians, you understand, but that's a good shorthand term for this story) are putting up a terrific fight. The Weïrd Sisters are there, casting spells against the invaders. Edgar Allen Poe is there, serving as the leader of the Martians. Charles Dickens is there . . . but he's refusing to fight because he doesn't believe his books should have been banned in the first place.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not going to provide any spoilers—you should read this yourself!—but here are the first few pages to entice you into reading it yourself:</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSfLciNn3qcvwqHNDNDDeTKNAyu9OkxJzBWfgsFFqS6nYRozfSIxLaNnEFaPZeJqNpF-nL0c4JBE9o9J39sibY6jIWzOiHA3erVMuK9rQevzDAixG7Y45lDcDuYdBajpzHLpunS34mcIE5Ayd-q78JQw2H0r2a762BakJz7zPFoaXPHhf38aedRBnlJO8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2198" data-original-width="3052" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSfLciNn3qcvwqHNDNDDeTKNAyu9OkxJzBWfgsFFqS6nYRozfSIxLaNnEFaPZeJqNpF-nL0c4JBE9o9J39sibY6jIWzOiHA3erVMuK9rQevzDAixG7Y45lDcDuYdBajpzHLpunS34mcIE5Ayd-q78JQw2H0r2a762BakJz7zPFoaXPHhf38aedRBnlJO8=w640-h464" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8Ew7TKlB3CgqxqATutJ4KCGtEQIRSempGdRG6_iFsyY4s38Yr77dRNL8Gzw_zXdkIeXOqeSSK14Dyrvx3XELs-0UC_ja04Wc_EBv2xlw71CwYPojSfN3_L1XQRf-z5stwsFEcmqzTZEvGtDRmfGKd6iELrq1dlbJ3utzh5f00JH8IsHfIiOQPdWeeTEg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2173" data-original-width="3072" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8Ew7TKlB3CgqxqATutJ4KCGtEQIRSempGdRG6_iFsyY4s38Yr77dRNL8Gzw_zXdkIeXOqeSSK14Dyrvx3XELs-0UC_ja04Wc_EBv2xlw71CwYPojSfN3_L1XQRf-z5stwsFEcmqzTZEvGtDRmfGKd6iELrq1dlbJ3utzh5f00JH8IsHfIiOQPdWeeTEg=w640-h452" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK9lYwb9ouBbKBJ1GP5hZ0Uu80bbVQAIKuualldkkTuHXYaWA9JCw6XwwynprrAleWykd4t6rvaj51o2pHOz4rVU5DNT9x0eLG1YGelJQnJpP8FuAdaxMMTkq1EYCyCibfoeVFFRsJ2oEFAbWHtk0FYzn7GyQyq2q2h1RA7PUNjvZ6QGJBZ-DW0JbXHpk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="3032" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK9lYwb9ouBbKBJ1GP5hZ0Uu80bbVQAIKuualldkkTuHXYaWA9JCw6XwwynprrAleWykd4t6rvaj51o2pHOz4rVU5DNT9x0eLG1YGelJQnJpP8FuAdaxMMTkq1EYCyCibfoeVFFRsJ2oEFAbWHtk0FYzn7GyQyq2q2h1RA7PUNjvZ6QGJBZ-DW0JbXHpk=w640-h466" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBEByJlfg9fQBI1LQD2LJvOfrAI7gfogALQD0jAvUrfz0-JsVgFsndLrDkmNdRf0Wo-dKMzKgXeaeQ_rXGEV2NGii2u2cLupqIvwAW4H6M5dEF2XhNQA0uEv8rIGN4X9-XMPqcg-_8BGgs7RosYjrYYmnJDsebZPai6DYPY7slgFRsw3eA5yjh3eSzdQA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="440" data-original-width="660" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBEByJlfg9fQBI1LQD2LJvOfrAI7gfogALQD0jAvUrfz0-JsVgFsndLrDkmNdRf0Wo-dKMzKgXeaeQ_rXGEV2NGii2u2cLupqIvwAW4H6M5dEF2XhNQA0uEv8rIGN4X9-XMPqcg-_8BGgs7RosYjrYYmnJDsebZPai6DYPY7slgFRsw3eA5yjh3eSzdQA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><i>Bonus Image: The Story's First Appearance</i></div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
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Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1997.</span></span><hr />Even though it doesn't have any sweeping week-long Shakespeare-related series of strips, I'm quite fond of <i>Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on your Nose</i>.<div><br /></div><div>What it may lack in scope it more than makes up for with its sharp, focused use of Shakespeare.</div><div><br /></div><div>For example, in one of the first strips in the volume, Jason is asking Paige if she needs any help with her homework. First, he asks about Math. Then he asks about Science. Then it becomes evident that he's already "helped" her with her English homework:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCAhB9T2dUuihYDoIWOdDABrjqRiK__DRjjcnQqgAijoVzlK2vwTwJTLJBYBVd9077F8JJCvFUuEjeXyWvbp8928-Arz0kZNIUxhotIJoEirlZr20xUc6dGnefcqW9DM62AmoPGEf6Xb0WgBLvmgrGi-e1afFR7UV2khmHm8-mXD3wuo8oFm-p3Tha4yg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="816" data-original-width="2333" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCAhB9T2dUuihYDoIWOdDABrjqRiK__DRjjcnQqgAijoVzlK2vwTwJTLJBYBVd9077F8JJCvFUuEjeXyWvbp8928-Arz0kZNIUxhotIJoEirlZr20xUc6dGnefcqW9DM62AmoPGEf6Xb0WgBLvmgrGi-e1afFR7UV2khmHm8-mXD3wuo8oFm-p3Tha4yg=w640-h226" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I just love the idea that he was trying to sabotage her homework by saying something about the great Elizabethan dramatist Chet Shakespeare.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The next strip we'll look at doesn't seem very Shakespearean . . . but give it a chance. Jason has written his mom a mushy card, trying to butter her up so she'll do something he wants. But he accidentally left it in Eileen Jacobson's book. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG3MFd-j7D4Mvpr9jDunLUVoiZXmMUpsBh-VKqNCXs5AdxaGXpqt9Nq1FDnUJgdpMibLQBOhb7L8HV6zjhJ7Vbyq1TSRaFrjApJFl1aOekxRtsCCcwZhjB2SO6lz-QpaW5lHtJmaudF8Rx7I7KZm4GCgBTWzwqwxZhRzYHd3psmHWxaDztW1NHeDUL1_s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="809" data-original-width="2332" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG3MFd-j7D4Mvpr9jDunLUVoiZXmMUpsBh-VKqNCXs5AdxaGXpqt9Nq1FDnUJgdpMibLQBOhb7L8HV6zjhJ7Vbyq1TSRaFrjApJFl1aOekxRtsCCcwZhjB2SO6lz-QpaW5lHtJmaudF8Rx7I7KZm4GCgBTWzwqwxZhRzYHd3psmHWxaDztW1NHeDUL1_s=w640-h226" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's the "Zounds!" that connects us to Shakespeare. After all, he uses the word over twenty times in his plays.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And if you didn't think that was particularly Shakespearean, try this strip. Jason's friends are mocking him—and using Shakespeare to do so:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw1_vuAew4pInjR0EkxtvtCP5icjPtp7-Mr853ZifS0JvcwsaXSPXfE6XAUS3IR8ifthOkCNGIs2HEUh17mnAHTJ0X8PjweXAVBfTmxWyCvFTryvjs950v8H5sgGTMDJcfovbNovCJuCfcaZaZuk4Oc9piFDquS97Z_m4hdF4MrayTph7PldM3hZkkIKk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="790" data-original-width="2344" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw1_vuAew4pInjR0EkxtvtCP5icjPtp7-Mr853ZifS0JvcwsaXSPXfE6XAUS3IR8ifthOkCNGIs2HEUh17mnAHTJ0X8PjweXAVBfTmxWyCvFTryvjs950v8H5sgGTMDJcfovbNovCJuCfcaZaZuk4Oc9piFDquS97Z_m4hdF4MrayTph7PldM3hZkkIKk=w640-h216" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't often see the sonnets used in Shakespeare-related comic strips. But Amend is versatile (as is, I suppose, Jason). Sonnet XVIII finds its way in here:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBk8M6UcW0MGt29T8VJ_-v6H2KVvFN_ADay2PI0Qgiwcr5ak1CWNq7s8MyOR46HvtuUJ2Gh0Ip1gUagt09CqQ21zh0owchmkODIGqtBd0ernhMMVOW-HyC21r4T1TGyS9P_L08e8dLjFG2E_T0f-hzZru_L8w0qr0fISK8MCk44mR2UqhEP3SPYdc0-f8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="786" data-original-width="2366" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBk8M6UcW0MGt29T8VJ_-v6H2KVvFN_ADay2PI0Qgiwcr5ak1CWNq7s8MyOR46HvtuUJ2Gh0Ip1gUagt09CqQ21zh0owchmkODIGqtBd0ernhMMVOW-HyC21r4T1TGyS9P_L08e8dLjFG2E_T0f-hzZru_L8w0qr0fISK8MCk44mR2UqhEP3SPYdc0-f8=w640-h212" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And, finally, here's a nicely subtle Shakespeare reference:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnKZeHxzVvYjOiJHaaIxf43CtB_SvOU0eLZ1FUxr37n5VUaOGn1-hZHboJFanar5KCwnx5lYIyhO440wbmWz1QPcJfBZH-K3iIP-qvp_ooexHhNy0OzBxfstOhVgMJpr4ccMn3kTIVjUYfBQfhmhT2UlhQdH6NMwKQ8iXPft5xaWBNrIHaW13YbasDvIQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="771" data-original-width="2357" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnKZeHxzVvYjOiJHaaIxf43CtB_SvOU0eLZ1FUxr37n5VUaOGn1-hZHboJFanar5KCwnx5lYIyhO440wbmWz1QPcJfBZH-K3iIP-qvp_ooexHhNy0OzBxfstOhVgMJpr4ccMn3kTIVjUYfBQfhmhT2UlhQdH6NMwKQ8iXPft5xaWBNrIHaW13YbasDvIQ=w640-h212" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">At first, I misread that as "Nice try, Oliver," and I thought it was somehow a joke related to <i>Oliver Twist</i>, who is notoriously served bad food. But, no. Andi is saying "Nice try, Olivier," indicating that Peter's performance may be equal to the acting prowess of one of the most well-known Shakespearean actors, but she's not buying it.</div></div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
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Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1996.</span><hr />As we continue on our quest to track down all the Shakespeare in Bill Amend's wondrous FoxTrot comics, we continue to go over old ground. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I've written about Paige's starring as Cleopatra before (for which, <a href="http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2009/11/foxtrot-anthony-and-cleopatra-sequence.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a> et <a href="http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2009/11/foxtrot-anthony-and-cleopatra-sequence_18.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>). But there were a couple other strips that connected to Shakespeare in one way or another.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">First, then, those others. We start with Peter complaining about his school day:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkbjAHJ7NS8ZUQnp_N_NwzQhaS27KRb7dYRyvajg5dqa5ih4cE1KVCt4ixuNtFJHFrlw7WDihpvWfq6jKKuXqJypYT_wLiHHH8Qdsz8gkwKHb8Qewh2apn7toqA_R8i7U2twMAM3cxrRyfYb1j9QijLHBHVscSBZFrQaBnYkdcS4fV53s86g-Fybb4LQs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="807" data-original-width="2386" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkbjAHJ7NS8ZUQnp_N_NwzQhaS27KRb7dYRyvajg5dqa5ih4cE1KVCt4ixuNtFJHFrlw7WDihpvWfq6jKKuXqJypYT_wLiHHH8Qdsz8gkwKHb8Qewh2apn7toqA_R8i7U2twMAM3cxrRyfYb1j9QijLHBHVscSBZFrQaBnYkdcS4fV53s86g-Fybb4LQs=w640-h216" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Later in the book, we return to this them, but with a decided difference:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVq6NLhokE6weYN8Xe-lEqpiKX1hp0IjHwEoPeOJX6YJmXMq3EGnZzmFGwNLmUKGdZD_hhBeDj4b9glZf6vL4pLC6VyQ3Nd0LFgJR52Qs2Ka1rndXNPztgqD4QAsah3cS70cG6hynS-he4R6y49hXQNmOU1dY-tNAWxPSXEC7K_MKI9XWIdLAGzYpLlzw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="792" data-original-width="2366" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVq6NLhokE6weYN8Xe-lEqpiKX1hp0IjHwEoPeOJX6YJmXMq3EGnZzmFGwNLmUKGdZD_hhBeDj4b9glZf6vL4pLC6VyQ3Nd0LFgJR52Qs2Ka1rndXNPztgqD4QAsah3cS70cG6hynS-he4R6y49hXQNmOU1dY-tNAWxPSXEC7K_MKI9XWIdLAGzYpLlzw=w640-h214" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes, it connects to Shakespeare. Tangentially. I mean, the homework he doesn't have is probably Shakespeare-related, right?</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Okay, fine. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Let's turn to some unquestionably Shakespearean strips. This time, Amend gives us a two-week sequence about Paige playing Cleopatra in Shakespeare's <i>Antony and Cleopatra</i>. 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</div>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-36358099530013790372023-09-01T06:00:00.002-05:002023-09-16T07:17:25.773-05:00Shakespeare in FoxTrot's May the Force Be With Us, Please<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVhm_f6YnQdfGQGC-Z0FvZiZgSp9OBO-CxurUmSHDZZ7ssqcLoNyOmqH4xrVffmnWHamwV-lWvgCzijPynnxZg9yMrOWUb6qBOXw9Y4m8nQzRa5FLICgBITHPSFD2WBfeI6ZGSMBhvPL_KEsK8wlVq_ATuBczAKgjlce99Z_lO7AiBXmympx9KyjN9t-E" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="593" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVhm_f6YnQdfGQGC-Z0FvZiZgSp9OBO-CxurUmSHDZZ7ssqcLoNyOmqH4xrVffmnWHamwV-lWvgCzijPynnxZg9yMrOWUb6qBOXw9Y4m8nQzRa5FLICgBITHPSFD2WBfeI6ZGSMBhvPL_KEsK8wlVq_ATuBczAKgjlce99Z_lO7AiBXmympx9KyjN9t-E" width="192" /></a></div>Amend, Bill. <u>May the Force Be With Us, Please</u>. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1994.</span></span><hr />For the previous six books, the Shakespeare strips have mostly been singletons. <div><br /></div><div>One mentions a homework assignment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another says that a quiz is forthcoming.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yet another mentions that either Paige or Peter has an essay on Shakespeare that they're working on.</div><div><br /></div><div>In <i>May the Force Be With Us, Please</i>, we have a nice week-long series on Shakespeare.</div><div><br /></div><div>True, it doesn't have anything to do with the specific elements of plot or characters in the play, but Paige has written an essay on <i>Macbeth</i> that she accidentally deletes:<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdnG8_gc15qfWpctEwl_XEks-tv7KYTScgV-kLacn5X1CD0eYmarVk-MCI7x_vTGDU-Y1VUlhLlpue1NSspisubV19FJ1NDxn06Ib2Q0qpBD_AeCjpzaJ3w28n9Z3SztXLRy8cuy08JR4DvvZ26uuYOxgJKSzp28n8fGZ6cL51V_QwTRF0Fer5yTCCKjg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2473" data-original-width="2383" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdnG8_gc15qfWpctEwl_XEks-tv7KYTScgV-kLacn5X1CD0eYmarVk-MCI7x_vTGDU-Y1VUlhLlpue1NSspisubV19FJ1NDxn06Ib2Q0qpBD_AeCjpzaJ3w28n9Z3SztXLRy8cuy08JR4DvvZ26uuYOxgJKSzp28n8fGZ6cL51V_QwTRF0Fer5yTCCKjg=w621-h640" width="621" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Although I would hope that a student would spend more than four hours on a <i>Macbeth</i> essay, I do understand Paige's pain at having it disappear completely. Let's see if Jason can help.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiR7B3gSHs2mTBeZYVekhymzus9h8iA57Se8Ic2zlLlwwOK_pRSnQO5iycsVgJhPb5xTPpHz8ayr-PrgsKAzU5gy0IoetKGaLn_-wATSiTCu1NJ-xhpqh0TFWqqLogJyd6g74emHcBQ3o0EhSYXG7YEVkhylZqvQOA6wG3n5PZw46OM3JjDBWq3xi9ZSM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2506" data-original-width="2442" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiR7B3gSHs2mTBeZYVekhymzus9h8iA57Se8Ic2zlLlwwOK_pRSnQO5iycsVgJhPb5xTPpHz8ayr-PrgsKAzU5gy0IoetKGaLn_-wATSiTCu1NJ-xhpqh0TFWqqLogJyd6g74emHcBQ3o0EhSYXG7YEVkhylZqvQOA6wG3n5PZw46OM3JjDBWq3xi9ZSM=w624-h640" width="624" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And there we have it! Though I would like to advise Paige to take some time to edit her <i>Macbeth</i> essay before turning it in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Whatever school Paige attends has the right idea when it comes to Shakespeare. A little later in the school year, she has yet another Shakespeare essay due:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFs16sQiQV2TIDGIc4UIAigfgfZ_pl9RX7uwqGrqe0MJKN7VMI6SWewKs9RExVbnUyWImP7WltwiErZznPPSNXQ4KIzzUNCxFxUbcPOtpcoDDtSMjqSuIsmi9C1Ly6TYLC9BRRee-AA_qNgw7l94kUuBZPOgy-1h01_RxCbSUy56PPK5MVWqUdPinhdWU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="790" data-original-width="2379" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFs16sQiQV2TIDGIc4UIAigfgfZ_pl9RX7uwqGrqe0MJKN7VMI6SWewKs9RExVbnUyWImP7WltwiErZznPPSNXQ4KIzzUNCxFxUbcPOtpcoDDtSMjqSuIsmi9C1Ly6TYLC9BRRee-AA_qNgw7l94kUuBZPOgy-1h01_RxCbSUy56PPK5MVWqUdPinhdWU=w640-h212" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I didn't say that <i>Paige</i> has the right idea when it comes to Shakespeare. 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Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993.</span></span><hr />I may have hit a bit of a jackpot with this volume of Bill Amend's tremendous comic strip FoxTrot.<div><br /></div><div>We're on the sixth published volume. The characters are pretty firmly established and fairly fleshed out.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thus, we're ready to run with the Shakespeare tropes.<br /><div><br /></div><div>First, it's Peter who is working on Shakespeare. He has a <i>Macbeth</i> essay due, and here's how it goes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmtZ_nFHmfBLslaxCbOASmJbA79jCSTcWzcXy3LTMpxLIuuqLOTAqNd15lrCavob0OmjP4rxx394p-5zYqtXG-uqtfvdfrcajZ3CUnUnptvadp7SJ4fD9FptDpZ0lf9lUraZAx_35oO8Rlwkex1tb5pcR9978YmZgxIOgwVojJPnkkbnopnn8CAKVXhqM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2515" data-original-width="2047" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmtZ_nFHmfBLslaxCbOASmJbA79jCSTcWzcXy3LTMpxLIuuqLOTAqNd15lrCavob0OmjP4rxx394p-5zYqtXG-uqtfvdfrcajZ3CUnUnptvadp7SJ4fD9FptDpZ0lf9lUraZAx_35oO8Rlwkex1tb5pcR9978YmZgxIOgwVojJPnkkbnopnn8CAKVXhqM=w520-h640" width="520" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't know that I would be able to call myself a Shakespeare scholar if I didn't point out that there are actually only four "prithees" in <i>Macbeth</i>, 75% of them spoken by the title character and the remaining 25% spoken by Banquo.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And now . . . well . . . something a bit more tangential. If you've dipped into <i>Bardfilm</i>'s "Shakespeare and <i>Star Trek</i> Complete" (for which, <a href="http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2009/06/shakespeare-and-star-trek-complete.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>), you may have noted that <i>Bardfilm</i> can get carried away, finding Shakespeare allusions where none was (probably) intended. But humor me, please:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihsFnVQd9AUMP6flDu-g-vuzvEVL_0YcQKknWsvZb4Of-usXpTLFL6VZVohLybHf10JhU-ONgvMndzg5gl0o0W2gdTQGja27AexY3CNCuG8LqS6p6pgJ8XBkMFJ8QTaFFerEgPSke5CwH4ISo2-7mn3W3hjILQ2cccpxKTvSiSSTnCsArbv-qfwT9R_cA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="787" data-original-width="2340" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihsFnVQd9AUMP6flDu-g-vuzvEVL_0YcQKknWsvZb4Of-usXpTLFL6VZVohLybHf10JhU-ONgvMndzg5gl0o0W2gdTQGja27AexY3CNCuG8LqS6p6pgJ8XBkMFJ8QTaFFerEgPSke5CwH4ISo2-7mn3W3hjILQ2cccpxKTvSiSSTnCsArbv-qfwT9R_cA=w640-h216" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tell me that's not a sideways allusion to <i>Othello</i> with the gender roles reversed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh. Okay. I hear you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We can all agree that the next strip is clearly deliberately related to Shakespeare, though the specifics are left vague:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA8w7ks4V4dX9zvbSyW-d5O9fTnqxH2ngeodwftA5M4fiUNVtd_UyqD57qUFPpdZWQxLMaAJJaB2jppt47hTGNDDjf9v6cldDsKDGbLUJm9x63ivAvRJEELz2yYMblttyQqV_DJUgeW18PEdmBaTsYUPoBIVy7EGhl3SsR0r4dU5SgJOFMKpb_IgVdybU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="770" data-original-width="2356" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjA8w7ks4V4dX9zvbSyW-d5O9fTnqxH2ngeodwftA5M4fiUNVtd_UyqD57qUFPpdZWQxLMaAJJaB2jppt47hTGNDDjf9v6cldDsKDGbLUJm9x63ivAvRJEELz2yYMblttyQqV_DJUgeW18PEdmBaTsYUPoBIVy7EGhl3SsR0r4dU5SgJOFMKpb_IgVdybU=w640-h212" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And, last but not least, we have one that I actually covered back in 2012 (for which, <a href="https://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-shakespearean-foxtrot-comics.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1hBiaYhV98Z2xrMap0aW0wlrhBRoiMbN-TSVr59mK4MKiAaGvIdLm1lYuGP7Bdiayu_QtMCtRFwjVZCgGxfejN9nVyz78bqWWC7IVyDfDgDB1lQe_9RxkUOFLwyWUUzOdwIx09z1IHCsCyz1sTD0WpF-OXfVMGoQrwoaBlibZ4u1cvPRZPDy8qDIBJVw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="861" data-original-width="2387" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1hBiaYhV98Z2xrMap0aW0wlrhBRoiMbN-TSVr59mK4MKiAaGvIdLm1lYuGP7Bdiayu_QtMCtRFwjVZCgGxfejN9nVyz78bqWWC7IVyDfDgDB1lQe_9RxkUOFLwyWUUzOdwIx09z1IHCsCyz1sTD0WpF-OXfVMGoQrwoaBlibZ4u1cvPRZPDy8qDIBJVw=w640-h230" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">That felt very satisfying. Thanks, Bill Amend, once again for years of great Fox Trot strips (though, please, more Shakespeare is always appreciated).</div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
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Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2023.</span></span><hr />My attention was called to this novel by a student in my Young Adult Literature class. It's a new novel centered on the Fifth of November, 1605 (Remember? Remember?) and featuring the son of Guy Fawkes.<div><br /></div><div>Therefore, it's a historical novel, right?</div><div><br /></div><div>Not exactly.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's really a fantasy novel set in something like that historic period. </div><div><br /></div><div>The plot is fairly complicated, but here's a quick overview. People are dying of the plague. But the plague isn't <i>the</i> plague—it's that people are turning into stone. Our protagonist (Guy Fawkes' son Thomas) has caught the plague in his eye, but the progress of the condition has abated. He and his father are part of The Keepers, a group of people with magical powers—they are each able to control one specific color. They have to get a mask and go through a choosing ceremony to bond with the color they're going to be able to control.</div><div><br /></div><div>King James (and many others) are part of The Igniters, a rival group who is set on killing the Keepers; they believe the Keepers to be the cause (or causers) of the plague. Meanwhile, the Keepers think that blowing up Parliament and King James will end the tyranny of The Igniters—and the plague.</div><div><br /></div><div>I found the novel to be generally well-written and interesting, though it does get pretty heavy-handed in one of its messages. The message is a good one: People should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, to coin a phrase. But it's belabored as we explore the relationship between Thomas and Emma, the love interest who has a mixed-race background.</div><div><br /></div><div>The historicity of the novel . . . well, once we work in all the magic and eliminate the religious motivations of Fawkes and his co-conspirators, we have to realize that we're not interested in historical accuracy. But neither are we reworking history. The main events that happened in 1605 London happen in this book—just in different ways and for decidedly different reasons. And there are many main events in this narrative that have to historic equivalent.</div><div><br /></div><div>"What about the Shakespeare?" I hear you cry. And I can call upon one of my most frequent answers to similar questions: "Needs more."</div><div><br /></div><div>On page 37 (at the top right of the image below), Shakespeare is mentioned in a way hopeful enough to keep me reading:</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4bTTxMkN7XmSzUWD00e6pqgS-XQdCxiNTDcAB3Ug98T0ICrGMbK-oIEqR06Trx4dND6raeDOoIVL7l2rKCcnGUn8lqK4Pt6kSJuPWM_sp-KzgKOOE2fHGjjavfn5veRcxz0IceXrMvED6HXSHuqH9rjggpccf8sZmO6jI-0xh84Nq_pNNddzfHY_zRR4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2477" data-original-width="3059" height="519" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4bTTxMkN7XmSzUWD00e6pqgS-XQdCxiNTDcAB3Ug98T0ICrGMbK-oIEqR06Trx4dND6raeDOoIVL7l2rKCcnGUn8lqK4Pt6kSJuPWM_sp-KzgKOOE2fHGjjavfn5veRcxz0IceXrMvED6HXSHuqH9rjggpccf8sZmO6jI-0xh84Nq_pNNddzfHY_zRR4=w640-h519" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Unfortunately, we have to wait until page 270 to encounter the Globe Theatre and to hear Shakespeare's name again.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd-Qy1f19hcXjG1Mb4vxW3t9z7R4tzQv00QCCTID1kZZEU-BdQz3or4bkGJ38mNX9Gw94xxVxD4qE2oM69NDv2qSYENeZcn0MHmrFKsWAScHR2lg2nHBEAIDvgWDi7O_FNIukp1xOEFv6DRTgIU4FHuU0abTT7fzQmtlAUAjet2e8GeCtk2Guq_NGJcMQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2477" data-original-width="3059" height="519" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd-Qy1f19hcXjG1Mb4vxW3t9z7R4tzQv00QCCTID1kZZEU-BdQz3or4bkGJ38mNX9Gw94xxVxD4qE2oM69NDv2qSYENeZcn0MHmrFKsWAScHR2lg2nHBEAIDvgWDi7O_FNIukp1xOEFv6DRTgIU4FHuU0abTT7fzQmtlAUAjet2e8GeCtk2Guq_NGJcMQ=w640-h519" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Did anyone else cringe when you got to the part about "Sir William Shakespeare"? If not, perhaps it doesn't sound as odd to you as it does to me. What if it said "William, Lord Shakespeare"? Maybe that coveys the extreme oddity of referring to Shakespeare in that way.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In any case, that's all the Shakespeare we get. He's mentioned as existing and as notable, and we learn that <i>Othello</i> has been staged prior to the actions in the novel (which is historically accurate).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">All in all, it's a good book for those who like the mixed historical-fantasy (tragical-comical-historical-pastoral?), and, just perhaps, it might serve as a gateway to interest in the genuine history in which it operates.</div></div><hr /><i><div style="text-align: center;">Click below to purchase the book from amazon.com<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fawkes-Novel-Nadine-Brandes/dp/0840723342?crid=P7X7NMBPULBA&keywords=fawkes&qid=1692890126&sprefix=fawkes%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1&linkCode=li2&tag=bardfilm-20&linkId=24e1f9dd5926218e168c66cecc177f26&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0840723342&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=bardfilm-20&language=en_US" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=bardfilm-20&language=en_US&l=li2&o=1&a=0840723342" style="border: medium; margin: 0px;" width="1" /></div></i></div>kjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863005904313974654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7581099872724683650.post-84471074663716906342023-08-18T07:00:00.001-05:002023-08-18T07:00:00.144-05:00More Deleted Scene Shakespeare in The Office<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_F9Th496scfPiJ51SWu4er24H05_MRx6kLjRFn6aW0Q1FfFC1_gAKPYooovubgTvaSpYuvuuLKRvdpF-PY3CyxId3VxofU9ZHh_JdGyAIfnOPM-TYTNWOs2_NbJVnilFwztakE-mdGioOEfVOPbGhz-tIQUXEhOypbyfbAviRwa9UEetm8bJeIDIBiwU" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="1277" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_F9Th496scfPiJ51SWu4er24H05_MRx6kLjRFn6aW0Q1FfFC1_gAKPYooovubgTvaSpYuvuuLKRvdpF-PY3CyxId3VxofU9ZHh_JdGyAIfnOPM-TYTNWOs2_NbJVnilFwztakE-mdGioOEfVOPbGhz-tIQUXEhOypbyfbAviRwa9UEetm8bJeIDIBiwU" width="320" /></a></div>"Money." By Paul Lieberstein. Perf. Steve Carell, Phyllis Smith, Ed Helms, and Leslie David Baker. Dir. Paul Lieberstein. The Office. Season 4, episode 4. NBC. 18 October 2007. Deleted Scene. DVD. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 2018.</span></span><hr />Last time, we saw that some Shakespeare can be found in the deleted scenes from <i>The Office</i> (for which, <a href="http://bardfilm.blogspot.com/2023/08/william-randolph-shakespeare-in-office.html" target="_blank"><i>q.v.</i></a>). That was in Season Three; it's time for Season Four.<br /><div><br /></div><div>In the episode from which this scene was deleted, Michael Scott has been having problems with his personal finances and is reluctant to tell his girlfriend about them. The solution? Why, procrastinating by talking about Shakespeare, of course! <i>[Note: Not that we at Bardfilm know anything about that proclivity.]</i><div><br /></div><div>It seems that Michael wants to talk about the authorship question, but his approach to it is somewhat garbled. When he asks, "Who do you think was the actual writer of <i>Shakespeare</i>," he seems to be asking about a play titled <i>Shakespeare</i> rather than inquiring about who wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare.</div><div><br /></div><div>Whatever he means, no one is interested in following up: They're not picking up what he's putting down. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='480' height='399' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzUiMYQII0lAkQbuZuxNgIoaCA3z68jh9cj8zVumaMsF4A1O-43cFo5oSZniCVKBZ4K0OtK5vvA4F4eWswHBA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm happy to find these Shakespearean moments in the deleted scenes from <i>The Office</i>. If any of you die-hard <i>Office</i> fans know of any others, please let me know!</div></div><hr /><i>Links: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031472/?ref_=ttep_ep4" target="_blank">The Episode at IMDB</a>.<br /><br />
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