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| Monday, June 1, 2009 02:47 PM |
| (Last updated on Monday, June 1, 2009 03:15 PM) | | To the text be true |
 by Fëanor |
It's always kind of bugged me when people quote Polonius' advice to Laertes from Hamlet. Sure, it's a good speech, and it sounds nice. But Polonius is meant to be a hypocrite and a windbag, his advice a rambling collection of trite cliches. So I enjoyed finding this link in my Twitter feed just now, courtesy @Wendell_Howe.
UPDATE: I should add this is just a symptom of a larger problem, also a pet peeve of mine: people quoting Shakespeare plays out of context and attributing the words to just Shakespeare. No, Shakespeare didn't say that: a character in one of his plays said that. It's often an important distinction. |
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