I was looking over The Jew of Malta because I've brought it up in class (with nuance, not "see, Shakespeare wasn't bad, look at this") and promised my students I'd xerox the rice pudding scene for them.

MARLOWE:
Know, Calymath, I aimed thy overthrow ( Read more... )

Not Shakespeare-to-Fannish actually, though I am using that tag, because it is close enough.

SHAKESPEARE:
That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;
This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,
Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck
Of that proud man that did usurp his back?

MODERN ( Read more... )

SHAKESPEARE:
I will this night,
In several hands, in at his windows throw,
As if they came from several citizens,
Writings all tending to the great opinion
That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.

FANNISH:
I'll tell him the lurkers support me in e-mail.

SHAKESPEARE:
God, the best maker of all marriages ( Read more... )