Source: RoryHenry.
A resounding Huzzah!
It’s June, and that means it’s time once again for Brush Up Your Shakespeare Month, presented by the brilliant Kelly R. Fineman at Writing and Ruminating.
She will be discussing 11 plays (full list here), and promises wickedly keen analysis and commentary, special guests, contests every Friday, and if you like, a dancing bear. There will be much to marvel at, as this adorable poetess serves up a mixed plate of the high brow, low brow, beautiful and bawdy. As is her year round custom, there’ll be a bit of the Bard’s poetry every Wednesday. She’s kicking things off this week with Hamlet and The Tempest.
To whet your appetite, a few foodie quotes from plays she’ll be covering in June:
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of his. And, most dear actors, eat no onions or garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet comedy. No more words: Away! Go, away! O, he is as tedious as a tired horse, a railing wife; worse than a smokey house: I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, than feed on cates and have him talk to me in any summer-house in Christendom. Unquiet meals make ill digestions. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Okay now, hie thee hence (with or without your tights, ruffs, farthingales and codpieces)! Copyright © 2010 Jama Rattigan of jama rattigan’s alphabet soup. All rights reserved.
Romeo and Juliet: act 4, scene 2
Henry IV Part I: act 2, scene 1
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: act 4, scene 2
Henry IV Part I: act 3, scene 1
The Comedy Of Errors: act 5, scene 1
Romeo and Juliet: act 4, scene 4
Source: RoryHenry.
