Djordjevic-isms.....Week 3
*Walks into Class* "Do you know the phrase 'To Be Yorked?'...yeah....that just happened to me." - He apparently was having a video sent from Scott to Frost to be shown in class today and it didn't make it.
"Just last week there was an unidentified portrait discovered by the Shakespeare Trust, but it must have been Shakespeare, because clearly he was the only one with a beard and frilly collar." - On the difficulty of properly identifying portraits from the period.
*Pausing lecture for a moment to type in something into google* "Excuse me for a second....I can't multitask."
"They wanted to make it seem like it was something Dan Brown-esque, like he was protecting 'the code' " - On conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Marlowe
"I'm in the wrong century....and the wrong genre of art." - After a Mozart/Salieri Sidebar
"So you have a great father....and a wimpy son." - On Edward I and II
"The difference is that Edward gets buggered by a hot poker." - On the similarities between Richard II and Edward II
"And he just revels in the blood and guts of it, and you just sit there going 'oh my god, did you write this?' " - On Tamburlaine parts I and II
"If you have a guy naked, spread eagle on a table and you have an actual hot poker going dangerously close to his anus, you have a problem." - On Renaissance stagings of Edward II
"You know him as the poor sod that met with a hot poker." (He really liked the hot poker references today)
"If you don't have the History Channel - where it's all Hitler, all the time - where are you going to learn?" - On the importance of History Plays
"What, the King is a Girl? He's kicked you in the head by the sixth line." - On the immediate introduction of a gay relationship in Edward II
"The choice of words is key, he says bosom, not taffeta-lined manly chest."
"Bad kings are wimpy. They wind up beign either sexually deviant or asexual."
"These guys are like the Capos....he's too close to the king, so he's going to get whacked."
"They throw the head of Gaveston at the king...'How do you like this? Here's your boyfriend.' " - On the death of Gaveston
"Just last week there was an unidentified portrait discovered by the Shakespeare Trust, but it must have been Shakespeare, because clearly he was the only one with a beard and frilly collar." - On the difficulty of properly identifying portraits from the period.
*Pausing lecture for a moment to type in something into google* "Excuse me for a second....I can't multitask."
"They wanted to make it seem like it was something Dan Brown-esque, like he was protecting 'the code' " - On conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Marlowe
"I'm in the wrong century....and the wrong genre of art." - After a Mozart/Salieri Sidebar
"So you have a great father....and a wimpy son." - On Edward I and II
"The difference is that Edward gets buggered by a hot poker." - On the similarities between Richard II and Edward II
"And he just revels in the blood and guts of it, and you just sit there going 'oh my god, did you write this?' " - On Tamburlaine parts I and II
"If you have a guy naked, spread eagle on a table and you have an actual hot poker going dangerously close to his anus, you have a problem." - On Renaissance stagings of Edward II
"You know him as the poor sod that met with a hot poker." (He really liked the hot poker references today)
"If you don't have the History Channel - where it's all Hitler, all the time - where are you going to learn?" - On the importance of History Plays
"What, the King is a Girl? He's kicked you in the head by the sixth line." - On the immediate introduction of a gay relationship in Edward II
"The choice of words is key, he says bosom, not taffeta-lined manly chest."
"Bad kings are wimpy. They wind up beign either sexually deviant or asexual."
"These guys are like the Capos....he's too close to the king, so he's going to get whacked."
"They throw the head of Gaveston at the king...'How do you like this? Here's your boyfriend.' " - On the death of Gaveston