Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Magic Shake-Ball


Tomorrow I start teaching All's Well That Ends Well, the tale of a young woman who cures the King of France's anal fistula so that she can marry a guy who hates her. Then, when she does, he refuses to sleep with her, so she tricks him into it by pretending to be someone else.

Fess up, Shake-Ball. Were you high when you wrote this one?

Answer:

"This haste hath wings indeed"
(All's Well That Ends Well 2.1.93)

Interpretation:

Wow. You took me right to the source. And nothing says "pass the doobie" like a good old-fashioned "wings" metaphor. This definitely explains Parolles' obsession with cheese in the first scene.

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