25 Things About Shakespeare

I’m sure many of you have seen the “25 Random Things About Me” note that is being passed around Facebook. They call it a “meme”, but what we used to call it was a Chain Letter. Anyway, I’m not going to complain about that, it’s just a preamble to Mike McPhaden’s hilarious list (click the link to read the whole thing):

Wm. Shakespeare’s Five and Twenty Random Things Abovt Me

1. Sometimes I Feele so trapp’d by iambic pentameter… Does that make me a Freake?
2. I haue been Knowne to cry at Bear-baiting.
3. I am not uery ticklish. I am Not. So prithee, do not euen try. Waste. Of. Time.
4. I cannot keep Lice, and know not why.
5. Sometimes I thinke plays are all Talke, Talke Talke, and wish for a cart-chase scene. I tried one in The Merry Wives, but it looked like Shitte, so I cut it. The men playing the horses were so Pissed at me.

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