Twelfth Night
Jan. 6th, 2004 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniAnd so ends another Christmas Season. Better take any remaining Christmas decorations down by tonight, or you'll have bad luck for the rest of 2004 (or so my mother taught me).
I thought I'd leave the season with a little snippet from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. I've heard two reasons why the play was called thus: one, that it was written to be part of Queen Elizabeth I's twelfth night celebratrions, and/or two, because of the plot, which revolves around disguises and mistaken identities (the traditional party for Twelfth Night was a masked costume ball). So, anyway . . . here's the quote:
FESTE: Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
Note: I tried to find out who Quinapalus is . . . Apparently, he's a made-up philosopher . . . .
And now, now more Yule/Christmas from me for at least the next 11 monrhs. You can all breathe a sigh of relief.
I thought I'd leave the season with a little snippet from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. I've heard two reasons why the play was called thus: one, that it was written to be part of Queen Elizabeth I's twelfth night celebratrions, and/or two, because of the plot, which revolves around disguises and mistaken identities (the traditional party for Twelfth Night was a masked costume ball). So, anyway . . . here's the quote:
FESTE: Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'
Note: I tried to find out who Quinapalus is . . . Apparently, he's a made-up philosopher . . . .
And now, now more Yule/Christmas from me for at least the next 11 monrhs. You can all breathe a sigh of relief.
