Shakespeare Meme

[dmarley]

Right. If you see this, you're supposed to quote some Shakespeare on your LJ. For some reason having nothing to do with Christopher Marlowe. Really, these are the two passages that sprang to mind:

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded by the forward child Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.

As You Like It, Act III, scene iii

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,
"Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?"

As You Like It, Act III, scene v

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[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.

Until I read The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, I never realized that line referred to him. So very, very sad.

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

That's a terrific book. Even though I'm not sure I buy the "Raleigh was behind it all" thesis, I think it's still one of the most thorough and detailed collections of facts about Marlowe's death.

And yeah, that passage always makes me a bit sad. Despite all his reputed dueling and bad temper, Marlowe's fellow poets really seemed to think a lot of him. Always makes me wonder what he might have done had he lived.