Thursday, March 03, 2005
A Way with Words
Phrases from Shakespeare
Superb Spring 2005 edition of BIAHC's Arts News just out - lose no time getting your own, and sign up while you're about it. The right-hand column of page 9 features a fascinating and informative list of familiar words with which one would win bar-room bets off those who'd never guess they were from Shakespeare. I pride myself on being steeped in the Bard but here are some that jolted even me awake:
As You Like It
Richard III
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Henry IV, Part II
Taming of the Shrew
Macbeth
Othello
Cymbeline
The Tempest