The Shakespearean play-goer who complained of the cliches

[David Daniel]

Shouldn't this thread be "The Shakespearean-play goer who complained of the
clichés" (hyphen moved one to the left), lest he be a goer to plays in the
time of Shakespeare? 
DAD

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Subject: Re: The Shakespearean play-goer who complained of the cliches

Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: The Shakespearean play-goer who complained of the cliches
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At 9/24/2014 04:07 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>Well, a lot of people go to Shakespeare to recognize the quotations.
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>The last quip in the passage above, "people go to Shakespeare to
>recognize the quotations", is nowadays assigned to Orson Welles or
>Oscar Wilde. For example, Richard Lederer implausibly attributes the
>remark to Oscar Wilde.

I attribute it to my mother, who after taking me to a Shakespeare 
play circa 1950 said "Shakespeare is just full of quotations."

Joel

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