Shakespeare In Love-Or In Love With Shakespeare-With The 400th
Anniversary Year Of The Bard’s Death In Mind
Who knows at this point how many expressions, terms, words, playwright
ideas, throwaway ideas, mousy idea, idle chatter, barroom fisticuffs, flights
of fancy, lost hours of imitative work, faded romance, ill-fated romance, bewitched
love-craft, homages, just sayings, bon mots, revels, idle chatter, oops I
already said that, murderous intentions, incestuous desires, kingly horses, betrothals,
beheadings, beddings, binges, oops same as barroom fisticuffs, groundling up-swells,
pixie midnight madnesses, rancorous reconnoiters, plough and stars séances,
heterosexual dalliances, homosexual dalliances(remember all those boys in girls’
uniforms, philogists banter, etymological discoveries, runes, druid pithiness,
and shear humbug can be laid at the Bard of Avon’s door after 400 plus years but
no question plenty can. And in the next one hundred solemn years about ninety
percent of the items expressed above things will continue to be thrown at that
self-same door. So be it. We are richer by some nth magnitudes for the works.
Adding their two pence worth is a series on Shakespeare’s influence
on the development and neglect of language-the English language mainly but the not
unimportant fact that at one time “the sun never set on the British Empire”
makes that a much bigger historical fact than a simple national language the British
Broadcasting Company (BBC) has been running an episodic year-long project about
the Bard’s effects.
Here’s the link-and get ready for 2116 now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/shakespeare/
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