'Heavens to Betsy', the other night I actually watched something enjoyable on my 'telly' and, moreover, it made me laugh! I refer, as per my title, to the second series written by Ben Elton of "The Upstart Crow" - how the hell did I miss the first series?! The title, of course, comes from a passage in Robert Greene's pamphlet from the early 1590s entitled "A Groats-Worth of Wit" in which he gave that jumped up Will Shakespeare a right good slap:
"...for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey".
Ooooooh, bitchy! Still, how comforting to know that 'luvvie-land' was just as 'snidey' back then as it is today. Anyway, I recommend Ben Elton's TV show which is both very knowledgeable on Shakespeare's works as well as very witty. I like to think that old Will, himself, would have had a chuckle.
"Still, how comforting to know that 'luvvie-land' was just as 'snidey' back then as it is today". What is it with that temperament of person who all too frequently seems just an itsy bit bitchy"? Too much left brain stuff maybe?
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 18:05
Too much left brain stuff maybe?
Or not enough brain stuff altogether perchance?
Posted by: AussieD | Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 23:32