Much Ado About Fairies
Apr. 23rd, 2005 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiralamouseWhat are fairies? I'm trying to answer this for my paper. And very unwisely, decided to introduce my roommate to the joys of Much Ado About Nothing (hee - Benedick just said of lute music, "Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?"). Anyway, I'm starting to regret tackling the topic, because the seventeenth century couldn't agree. Fairies are anything resembling intelligence and not human or heavenly. Bright and beautiful, great and small, wise and wonderful... the good Herrick hath chronicled them all. (Well, also lustful and idolatrous, but there aren't any convenient hymns describing such creatures.)
Roommate: "You know, only a few men can pull off those pants Denzel's wearing."
Me: "And he's one of 'em."
Roommate: "Mm-hmm."
Hee. I will never tire of the contrast between Benedick's monologue at the beginning of this scene and the one at the end. "Until love hath made an oyster of me..." "I will be horribly in love with her!!!"
See Much Ado. Forget the fairies. "There's a double meaning in that!"
Roommate: "You know, only a few men can pull off those pants Denzel's wearing."
Me: "And he's one of 'em."
Roommate: "Mm-hmm."
Hee. I will never tire of the contrast between Benedick's monologue at the beginning of this scene and the one at the end. "Until love hath made an oyster of me..." "I will be horribly in love with her!!!"
See Much Ado. Forget the fairies. "There's a double meaning in that!"
