I do now remember the poor creature, small beer

[angevin2]

I would just like to say that warm beer is actually quite an underrated beverage. I am consuming the remnants of an unchilled Bass Ale as I type this, and it's surprisingly tasty.

(BTW, did you know that the only characters in Shakespeare to talk about beer are Prince Hal, Jack Cade, Iago, and Hamlet? And an anonymous bit-player in 2 Henry VI.

Comments

[friede]

Absalom and Achitophel! Woe! That was my worst paper in Satire EVER.

[angevin2]

The trouble with this paper is that I feel like to even begin to write it I need to have a good understanding of everything Milton and Dryden ever wrote, which is unlikely to happen any time soon as they were both astoundingly prolific. I guess that's what happens when Paradise Lost enters the equation, though, since it has, basically, everything in it.

(I also feel like thus far I've been unfair to Dryden by treating him as "Random Restoration Royalist #12" and that I need a better grip on what he was really about, politically...)

[friede]

Suddenly my swatch of crappy late eighteenth century plays to read seems a lot less impossible... :)

[angevin2]

*giggles*

After I finish the paper I've got a whole mess of crappy sixteenth century plays to read. But that's okay; I love Elizabethan drama when it's on crack. ;)

Re: Out of this nettle

[angevin2]

Glendower and Mortimer! I love that scene, too. "But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair!"

Indeed, perhaps the most influential moment in my academic career was the time someone in my high school Shakespeare class who'd signed up to read was absent, so the teacher asked me to read the part of Hotspur in her stead. If there was anyone in the class who hadn't already thought I was completely nuts there certainly wasn't by the time we finished 1 Henry IV.

(I sorta wonder how my life/career would be different if I'd been in one of the classes that read Julius Caesar instead, as sometimes happened -- one of my sisters read Caesar instead of 1H4. Of course, her favorite Shakespeare play is King John so one never knows.)

[ladyshrew]

::giggles!::

Do the ale search! DOIT! :-D

[angevin2]

I need a better online concordance, then; the one I've been using doesn't seem to allow whole-word-only searches.

Alternately, I could go to the library tomorrow (I should do that anyway) and check Spevack's concordance, but that seems like a lot of effort to put in for the sake of random silliness... ;)

[ladyshrew]

::pout!:: not random! Not silly! ;-)

Think of the TRIVIA you could do for classes! :-D

[upstart_crow]

Ah yes. Further proof that Iago has entire swiming pools of cool.