lost co mmunication (face of shame)

[Laurence Horn]

>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.

And it's easy to google it, as I just tried.

Larry

>
>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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>>Confess: The readiness is not all! as Falstaff did not say.
>>
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