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morphememedley #177206 06/03/08 04:38 AM
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 Originally Posted By: morphememedley
Shakespeare apparently acquired sufficent knowledge to avoid characterizing or caricaturing powerful personages in a manner so objectionable as to result in his banishment, or worse.

Or sufficient tact to present previous Royal dynasties in a suitably unfavourable light so as to suck up to the Tudors.

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Whatever Shakespeare's exposure to history and the ways of the royal court, at least he did not have the World Wide Web to distract him.

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I'll go ahead and nail myself: Thou doth protest too much.

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 Originally Posted By: morphememedley
I'll go ahead and nail myself: Thou doth protest too much.

To deny is to affirm - Lenin

What do you mean I protest too much? Do you mean what the word meant in Shakespeare's day (ie affirm, confirm, attest, confess, aver, vow, etc) or what it means now (ie object, complain, etc)?

The quote by the way, is "The lady doth protest too much, methinks," and is Gertrude's comment on the play Hamlet has arranged when he asks her how she likes it. She is saying that the Queen in the play promised too much in declaring she would never marry another if her husband died.

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Stationary or stationery? (finally stand has an A and write has an E... (and the first word with an A (ary) is standing still not moving, the second with an E (ery) is paper for writing on..

if something stays - it is stationary (the "a"s have it..)

if you are using stationery, you can use a pen or pencil (check the "e"s

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Thou doth protest too much.

Doth is the (archaic) third person singular present indicative of do. The correct second person singular form would be Thou dost protest too much.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I became unable to connect here not long after making the ungrammatical quotation-based comment, and did not timely execute my common practice of posting first and consulting references later. The edit function spoils me. Corrected I stand.

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Some might protest that I tortured protest or missed its meaning altogether. I was hinting at my having evidenced, by speaking of how distracting the web can be, the likelihood that I have firsthand experience of being distracted by–or, as a person assuming active responsibility would put it, distracting myself with–the web.

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 Originally Posted By: morphememedley
Some might protest that I tortured protest or missed its meaning altogether. I was hinting at my having evidenced, by speaking of how distracting the web can be, the likelihood that I have firsthand experience of being distracted by–or, as a person assuming active responsibility would put it, distracting myself with–the web.

You should be a politician - by the time I got to the end of that sentence I'd forgotten what the beginning was!

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Thanks for the light hammer blow. Some folks can get mean with the pein.

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