Comments on: Top 10 Shakespeare Misquotes http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/ Ultimate Top 10 Lists - Listverse Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jreddy666 http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-223400 jreddy666 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:41:37 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-223400 "Double, double, toil and trouble." Oh, I'm so happy, I can correct my old all-knowing English teacher!! Thanks, JFrater! “Double, double, toil and trouble.”
Oh, I’m so happy, I can correct my old all-knowing English teacher!!
Thanks, JFrater!

]]> By: jenny http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-160045 jenny Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:03:44 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-160045 I'd add "A plague o' both your houses!" Often misquoted as, "A pox on both your houses!" (Mercutio's dying words.) I’d add “A plague o’ both your houses!” Often misquoted as, “A pox on both your houses!” (Mercutio’s dying words.)

]]> By: Fiona http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-150870 Fiona Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:05:23 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-150870 I have one! "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind" This one gets quoted at weddings and such, because people think that it means that Love recognizes that true beauty is within. But when you look at the rest of the quote, she's actually saying that Love is stupid because it fails to see the reality right before its eyes, and instead transforms things that are actually "base and vile" to things of "form and dignity". I have one!

“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind”

This one gets quoted at weddings and such, because people think that it means that Love recognizes that true beauty is within. But when you look at the rest of the quote, she’s actually saying that Love is stupid because it fails to see the reality right before its eyes, and instead transforms things that are actually “base and vile” to things of “form and dignity”.

]]> By: Me http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-132664 Me Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:13:10 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-132664 I appreciate this list. However, you've built it on the assumption that there is only one version of Shakespeare's plays. Actually, there is much debate over the right way to edit a Shakespeare play since more than one version of many plays are available (Folio and Quarto editions). This is one of the big issues (and fascinating) of Shakespeare scholarship. A Quarto version of Hamlet's soliloquy says: "To be or not to be; ay, there's the point.To die, to sleep: is that all? Ay, all." but the Folio of 1623 says: "To be or not to be; that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..." The difference is staggering, no? You might be tempted to think only one version is true. That's fine. But I think it's more exciting to consider the possibility that Shakespeare revised his work and we have at our disposal the process of literary revision of one of the greatest playwrights. I appreciate this list. However, you’ve built it on the assumption that there is only one version of Shakespeare’s plays. Actually, there is much debate over the right way to edit a Shakespeare play since more than one version of many plays are available (Folio and Quarto editions). This is one of the big issues (and fascinating) of Shakespeare scholarship. A Quarto version of Hamlet’s soliloquy says: “To be or not to be; ay, there’s the point.To die, to sleep: is that all? Ay, all.” but the Folio of 1623 says: “To be or not to be; that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune…” The difference is staggering, no? You might be tempted to think only one version is true. That’s fine. But I think it’s more exciting to consider the possibility that Shakespeare revised his work and we have at our disposal the process of literary revision of one of the greatest playwrights.

]]> By: philippa http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-119691 philippa Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:36:40 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-119691 I feel pressed to state this since you discussed "Romeo Romeo"s misuse -- "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." does NOT mean, "The lady is protesting because it's true." The queen says it about the player queen in Hamlet's play, who is swearing that she (player queen) could never love another after her husband dies. She says this of course, because she (real queen) married her husband's brother very soon after her husband died. Still, I am oddly attached to the misuse of the quote. :) I feel pressed to state this since you discussed “Romeo Romeo”s misuse –

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” does NOT mean, “The lady is protesting because it’s true.” The queen says it about the player queen in Hamlet’s play, who is swearing that she (player queen) could never love another after her husband dies. She says this of course, because she (real queen) married her husband’s brother very soon after her husband died.

Still, I am oddly attached to the misuse of the quote. :)

]]> By: SonnyAngell http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-101871 SonnyAngell Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:30:24 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-101871 DK: Waaaaah waaah my mom didnt make me breakfast this morning DK: Waaaaah waaah my mom didnt make me breakfast this morning

]]> By: rushfan http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-100303 rushfan Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:50:31 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-100303 okay, to clarify...fray = JFray. Open up Hotmail account because the confirmation email won't come thru if you have, say, AOL like me, but I had no prob with the hotmail account my hubby set up for me... okay, to clarify…fray = JFray. Open up Hotmail account because the confirmation email won’t come thru if you have, say, AOL like me, but I had no prob with the hotmail account my hubby set up for me…

]]> By: rushfan http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-100302 rushfan Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:48:15 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-100302 Vera Lynn ~ DO NOT feel bad, it took me weeks to get into the forums, but now I'm addicted. Get in, it's worth it. Go to the forums. Register. You'll get a confirmation email. If you don't (I didn't) either 1)open up a free hotmail account or 2)email fray a user name and password and he'll do it for you. :) Come to the forums! I'm so ronery! :) Vera Lynn ~ DO NOT feel bad, it took me weeks to get into the forums, but now I’m addicted. Get in, it’s worth it. Go to the forums. Register. You’ll get a confirmation email. If you don’t (I didn’t) either 1)open up a free hotmail account or 2)email fray a user name and password and he’ll do it for you. :) Come to the forums! I’m so ronery! :)

]]> By: Vera Lynn http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-100296 Vera Lynn Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:06:18 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-100296 Hi rushfan. Thanks for the invite. IDK how. Im not tech savvy. Pretty pathetic actually. I don't even know if im registered with 'Verse. Hi rushfan. Thanks for the invite. IDK how. Im not tech savvy. Pretty pathetic actually. I don’t even know if im registered with ‘Verse.

]]> By: Vera Lynn http://listverse.com/2008/09/15/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-100289 Vera Lynn Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:32:51 +0000 http://listverse.com/literature/top-10-shakespeare-misquotes/#comment-100289 Et tu Who? Et tu Who?

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