Question for followers of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day. (All three of you...) :

[Aristus]

Does anyone ever look up the quotes I post to see if I got the Act/Scene/Line attribution correct?

Just curious...

[femmocrat]

1. Are you trying to trick us?

(Like when the teacher puts a trick question on the quiz?)

[Aristus]

2. No. Just genuinely curious.

Although, to be honest, the Act/Scene/Line count is likely to differ depending on the whims of whomever edited your source.

There are dozens of omnibus editions, stemming from the early quarto printings of the plays. They are classified, according to relative accuracy, as 'good', 'bad', and 'doubtful'. Then there are the Folio Editions. They are the grandfathers of today's collections.

I have:

The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
The Riverside Shakespeare
The Yale Shakespeare, and
The Library Shakespeare

[femmocrat]

3. You are a scholar and a gentleman!

My knowledge of Shakespeare is very limited. I always enjoy your posts but would not know where to begin to double-check your sources! Thank you for enlightening us every week!

[malthaussen]

16. A friend gave me a set of Bowlder's edition...

... real piece of history, that. And interesting that he gets the credit for it when it was his sister who did the actual editing.

-- Mal

[elleng]

4. No, Luv,

I never check up on you (or Will!)

[Aristus]

5. That's the problem with this country these days:

no oversight...

[elleng]

6. OH NO!

I used to do oversight, was my JOB, but heck, it's so BORING!!!

P.S, did have a 'Complete Sonnets,' but that was 'lost,' along with my cookbooks, when my house was 'lost.'

[Aristus]

7. If you were my neighbor,

I'd buy you a replacement edition...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I trust you implicitly, my dear Aristus...

Or in other words, I'm too damn lazy to look up your quotes.



I know you get them right!

[lastlib]

9. "Trust, but verify"

Yes, I check every single Shakespeare Thought you post, and I've been meaning to tell you--last week you got the period upside-down!

j/k, no I take you on faith. IMHO, your scholarship on The Bard is above reproach! And SO spot on w/ regard to your subject!

[eppur_se_muova]

10. I knew you were faking it with the John 3:16 attribution, but I'm still too lazy to check.

More seriously, I have read and heard many snippets and excerpts of Shakespeare's works, but except for Romeo and Juliet (in high school) have never read, or seen, a work in its entirety. But then I burden myself with so much nonfiction that I have simply left no room for "literature".

[First Speaker]

11. I've been lucky, beause I've usually recognized the quotes...

...what can I say? Grew up reading the Bard, and have a good memory...at least until recently...

[ailsagirl]

12. What First Speaker said...

[Arazi]

13. Lol, whut?

[In_The_Wind]

14. Well ...

I never ever check to see if you got it right.

[malthaussen]

15. No, I assume you do your homework.

Arguably, the exact scene/line isn't important: it's Shakespeare, and the content is apposite.

Now, if you attributed to Woody Allen...

-- Mal