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

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

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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