I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever been excited for a Roland Emmerich flick (that doesn’t involve Jake Gyllenhaal).
Anonymous examines the theory that William Shakespeare’s works were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. It doesn’t hurt that the film stars Derek Jacobi, Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, and David Thewlis.
Get thee to a nunn’ry, why woulds’t thou be a breeder of sinners?
— Hamlet, Hamlet Act 3, scene 1, 114–121
In his famous line “Get thee to a nunn’ry,” he exhorts Ophelia to put herself away so that she may never breed sinners like Hamlet.
Specialists in Shakespeare’s bawdy language are fond of noting that “nunnery” was common Elizabethan slang for “brothel,” and that therefore Hamlet’s command is ironic and even more despairing than it seems.
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