The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsQuestion for followers of William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day. (All three of you...) :
Does anyone ever look up the quotes I post to see if I got the Act/Scene/Line attribution correct?
Just curious...
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)(Like when the teacher puts a trick question on the quiz?)
Aristus
(66,294 posts)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
(28,394 posts)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
(17,175 posts)... 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
(130,740 posts)I never check up on you (or Will!)
Aristus
(66,294 posts)no oversight...
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
(66,294 posts)I'd buy you a replacement edition...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,527 posts)Or in other words, I'm too damn lazy to look up your quotes.
I know you get them right!
lastlib
(23,163 posts)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
(36,247 posts)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
(4,858 posts)...what can I say? Grew up reading the Bard, and have a good memory...at least until recently...
ailsagirl
(22,885 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I never ever check to see if you got it right.
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)Arguably, the exact scene/line isn't important: it's Shakespeare, and the content is apposite.
Now, if you attributed to Woody Allen...
-- Mal