Alan Futerfas: because being pictured with an enormous phallic symbol sends a powerful message to the world about you …
Please, pretty please, Mr Futerfas, leave Shakespeare out of things – it doesn’t lend you any gravitas: ‘they’ will NOT, in the words of Cole Porter, “all kow-tow” …
In fact, some might be tempted to suggest you are over-compensating, and use Curtis‘ words to Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew:
‘Away, you three-inch fool” (IV.i.23)
or simply Much Ado About Nothing … ?
students were in tears after the exam
A multiple choice question for the adults. Or for my students, who sat their Shakespeare exam on Monday just gone. You sit an exam where you have a choice of two questions. One question appears to make no sense. Do you:
It’s not just online, in the hallowed halls of the BBC, that we find Crimes Against Shakespeare …
Oh no!
First in a series, I suspect.
Thanks BBC. Oh, the sweet, sweet irony of your copy … I said I was a big fan of yours – on this blog – only this morning!
Next week: Can you guess which character says this line in Romeo & Juliet?
The Boar's Head, Eastcheap 