Word: shakespeareanisms
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Insert here a quotation from a Shakespearean comedy about illusions and switcheroos. Except that here it's relentlessly morbid and with little song and dance to the loud-and-clear cynicism. After getting flak for his platitudes, Billings confronts Sgt. Pompano with his suspicion that she doesn't think spirituality and hard-nosed policing (reality) can coexist. It's not that she doesn't think they can, but that it doesn't matter--they're no threat, he's just another rube, another biped bovine...
...SHAKESPEAREAN CRYPTOGRAM...
...years of age that year, and if you go to Psalm 46 and count in 46 words, you will come to the word shake. Go to the end of the psalm and count back 46 words, and the next word is spear. Perhaps it is a clever Shakespearean cryptogram. JOHN J. BEECING Bangkok
...chase for audience approval and Oscar nods, screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard could not have custom tailored "Shakespeare in Love" any better. Gwyneth Paltrow bares her breasts, audiences can test their recognition of the Shakespearean quotes interspersed in the dialogue, the most acclaimed playwright and poet is known by the affectionately simple title "Will," and the bond between two beautiful lovers is yet again tragically severed. What is there not to love? Oh, and one more thing: the screenwriters took the liberty of redirecting a bit of William Shakespeare's prose to alter his sexual orientation. But in Hollywood...
...that may weaken the case for Oxford. But what a life De Vere led, an existence more Shakespearean than Shakespeare's! Of the man from Stratford we have only a sheaf of facts slimmer than a Gospel redacted by atheists. He is a man about whom it is impossible to write the literary biography as we know it today--kiss, tell, stab in the back, keep the codpiece, and don't dry-clean the doublet. And thus De Vere tantalizes. He may not have been the Bard, but--with apologies to whomever--was his life the stuff of which Shakespeare...