The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 13.2272 Tuesday, 12 November 2002
[1] From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Nov 2002 12:37:04 -0500
Subj: Fanny Hill and Shakespeare
[2] From: Brian Willis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Nov 2002 18:32:57 -0800 (PST)
Subj: Pop Culture References to Shakespeare
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From: Richard Burt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Nov 2002 12:37:04 -0500
Subject: Fanny Hill and Shakespeare
Two Shakespeare references in John Cleland's (1749) Fanny Hill (Penguin
Classics edition, ed. by Peter Wagner, 1985):
page 54 / "he looked goats and monkeys at me" (Othello 4.1.274)
page 201 / indented quotation: "Gorged with the dearest morsel of the
earth." [You may recall what "morsel" Louisa accommodates...] (Romeo
5.3.49).
There may be more...
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From: Brian Willis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Nov 2002 18:32:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Pop Culture References to Shakespeare
The Platinum Series of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" includes a new
musical sequence. Included in the new footage is Belle reading to the
Beast. She reads the concluding couplet of Romeo and Juliet and Beast
asks her to read it again. She begins to teach him to read by using
Shakespeare, with the Beast reading the opening prologue: "Tuh-woo
households" (a brilliantly ironic mispronunciation).
Brian Willis
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