Shakespeare on The Former Guy?
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From today's Doonesbury:
The last two panels:
The passage is from All's Well That Ends Well, Act 3 Scene 6, and refers to the character Parolles.
April 11, 2021 @ 10:18 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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From today's Doonesbury:
The last two panels:
The passage is from All's Well That Ends Well, Act 3 Scene 6, and refers to the character Parolles.
April 11, 2021 @ 10:18 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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Jerry Packard said,
April 11, 2021 @ 12:30 pm
Outstanding. Thanks for the post.
DaveK said,
April 11, 2021 @ 1:56 pm
“Thou idol of idiot worshippers” (from Troilus and Cressida) is still my favorite Shakespearean reference to Trump
KeithB said,
April 12, 2021 @ 11:21 am
Shouldn't the "one" be bolded in the last panel and not the "no"?
Chas Belov said,
April 12, 2021 @ 3:13 pm
Wait, wouldn't the prosody give it away?
Alexander Browne said,
April 13, 2021 @ 9:40 am
@Chas Belov: I think that ambiguity as a written comic make the joke work in this format.