From 2 Henry IV 1.2.:
I was never manned with an agate till now, but I will inset you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master for a jewel -- the juvenal, the Prince your master, whose chin is not yet fledge. I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall get one of his cheek, and ( Read more... )

It's always fun when you're up late working on a paper and looking up some criticism and you run across the sentence "I neither suggest nor exclude actual necrophilia ( Read more... )

All edits to the original text given in the quiz answers are Kiernan's.

( Answers to the Filthy Shakespeare Quiz. Contains the quiz questions, so warning for graphic language. )

So last night Beth and I tried to see Measure for Measure at The More Prestigious University Just West of Ours, only to find that it had sold out the rest of the run. I have really bad luck with stage productions of Measure for Measure; the last time I tried to go see one, the same thing happened. (It was also a college production in a studio ( Read more... )

on 1 Henry IV 1.3.174 (with an assist from Eric Partridge). Not coming soon to a variorum Shakespeare near you.

( cut for dirty words and general abuse of elizabethan slang )