Outing Hamlet [was: out-Xing X]

[Joel S. Berson]

My apologies -- I did not remember the Herod!  And wrote, obviously,
before receiving Larry's message.  (But it gave me an excuse for the
Kierkegaard quote, which I encountered yesterday and therefore still
remember it.)

Joel

At 1/21/2010 11:27 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:23:16AM -0500, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > At 1/21/2010 10:29 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:14AM -0500, David Barnhart wrote:
> >> > I saw in this morning's NYT (p B13) the use of "out-iPhones the iPhone."
> >> > Would somebody please guide me to some linguistically sound
> discussion of
> >> > this.
> >>
> >> Apart from _Hamlet_?
> >
> > Jesse, did you mean "the time is out of joint", or "Out, out, thou
> > Strumpet-Fortune", or something else?  Or perhaps _Macbeth_'s "out,
> > out, damned spot"?  I suppose if Soren Kierkegaard could write "Last
> > evening Shakespeare's glorious masterpiece, _The School for Scandal_,
> > was performed for the first time", one can forgive Jesse (or me) for
> > a little confusion.  :-)
>
>Sorry, I thought it was a clear reference, as Larry observed:
>
>I would/Have such a fellow whipped for overdoing Termagant;/It
>out-Herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.
>
>_Hamlet_ III.ii.12ff

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