While I don't claim to be a Shakespeare afficianado, by any stretch of the imagination, a couple of my favorite sayings are attributed to him. I just thought this was kinda funny.
Merriam--Webster word of the day:
Bardolater
noun | bar-DAH-luh-ter
Definition:
a person who idolizes Shakespeare
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Which sayings are your favorites? I can, on a good day, quote Hamlet's soliloquy ("To be, or not to be…" ) and Marc Antony's speech from Julius Caesar ("Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears…" ), and I can recite his Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?…" ). But none of that is especially quotable in everyday conversation.
resserts
Level 8
Feb 11, 2019
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@LetzGetReal Thank you! I started memorizing these things a few years ago just for something to do on my almost-hour-long commute home each day (just repeating a couple of lines at a time, as I can't read and drive at the same time), and I found memory to be a bit like a muscle in that the more I put it to use the better it got. I also memorized a few other poems, including Lord Byron's "She walks in beauty" and Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death." I started "Jabberwocky" a while ago, but never got past the first stanza. I should revisit that.
I like short, easily repeatable phrases, e.g.; "Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so." And, "Expectation is the root of all heartache." These I have found to be quite helpful when applicable.
Never heard this word. Likely because I enjoy only some Shakespeare. Appreciate the works that have been “translated” for the oblivious of meaning so deeply concealed to the common reader. I like to have a “ah-ha” when I read a new revelation about his works! I am not a bardolater!?
SkyeDreamer
Level 4
Feb 11, 2019
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Myself likewise, I just thought it an interesting, kind of funny word I'd never heard before.
Shakespeare's sense of humor was not confined to his works. William Shakespeare left his wife their 'second best bed' in his last will and testament, probate records show.
ASTRALMAX
Level 8
Feb 11, 2019
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Yes he did. By law she would have gotten a third of his estate at the time. He gave his daughter's and their husbands a nice chunk of change.
@Beowulfsfriend so, I'm guessing he wasn't one of those artistic geniuses who died penniless?
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