Re: [ADS-L] lost co mmunication (face of shame)

[Beverly Flanigan]

Hey, what makes you think they've read either play, at least in its
entirety?!?  But yeah, I'd admit the error, if only to ward off
smarty-pants students who look it up and throw it in your face later.

At 02:31 PM 10/22/2006, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/22/06 10:17:21 AM, cdoyle at UGA.EDU writes:
>
>
> > Ron, I'm sorry I missed your joke; that's embarrassing. (But, hey, it
> WAS a
> > really bad joke!)
> >
> > Also embarrassing was my walking into my Shakespeare class last week,
> having
> > just been reminded (by a posting on this list) of Dr. Bowdler and the
> > notorious trumpet-playing in Othello's bed.  I shared the information
> with the
> > class, and the students were appropriately amused.  Only later did it
> occur to me
> > that the Bowdlerized line appears in _Cymbeline_, not _Othello_ (though I
> > believe the misascription is fairly common in recountings of
> Bowdler-lore)..
> > Now: Do I confess the error to my class or keep quiet, secure in the
> knowledge
> > that my students never remember anything I say anyhow?
> >
> > --Charlie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---- Original message ----
> > >Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:18:07 EDT
> > >From: RonButters at aol.com
> > >Subject: lost communication (face of shame)
> > >To: cdoyle at UGA.EDU, ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > >
> > >   In a message dated 10/20/06 9:34:49 AM,
> > >   cdoyle at UGA.EDU writes:
> > >
> > >     It's "Th' expense of spirit in a WASTE of shame,"
> > >     Ron!  Some scholars have suggested an anatomical
> > >     pun on "waist"--but none (as far as I know) have
> > >     amended the word to "face."
> > >
> > >     --Charlie
> > >
> > >   I know what the sonnet says, and the pun is
> > >   something that I've pointed out to students for 35
> > >   years or more. In the original message (apparently
> > >   lost) I said I was "paraphrasing" Shakespeare. (I'm
> > >   not sure that my lame joke is worth all this
> > >   attention!)
> >
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