Just when I thought there might not be anything to write tonight.
I just received a blank e-mail with the following subject line:
"If Super Viagra existed centuries ago, Shakespeare would have"
And this tantalizingly unfinished statement raises (if you will) some tempting possibilities: what would Shakespeare have done? or been? or had? if this miracle had existed centuries ago?
I realize a couple of things: this post might be my lamest ever, and now I'm going to get so many absurd hits from people who are googling both the "drug" itself and, almost certainly (and completely inexplicably) the spam message mentioning the drug. After my "Please open your mind for a simple thing" post in June, I had at least one or two searchers land here daily, having looked for that string of words. But these questions about Shakespeare, I tell you, they're important for a literary critic, especially one who's about to skip town.
"If Super Viagra existed centuries ago, Shakespeare would have"
And this tantalizingly unfinished statement raises (if you will) some tempting possibilities: what would Shakespeare have done? or been? or had? if this miracle had existed centuries ago?
I realize a couple of things: this post might be my lamest ever, and now I'm going to get so many absurd hits from people who are googling both the "drug" itself and, almost certainly (and completely inexplicably) the spam message mentioning the drug. After my "Please open your mind for a simple thing" post in June, I had at least one or two searchers land here daily, having looked for that string of words. But these questions about Shakespeare, I tell you, they're important for a literary critic, especially one who's about to skip town.
posted by Dr. S at 11:35 PM
2 Comments:
If Super Viagra had existed centuries ago, Shakespeare would have [existed]? An unexpectedly literate reference to the theory that someone else wrote Shakespeare's plays? Ah, if only that John Shakespeare had had some Super Viagra! Then he and Mary Arden could have Gotten It On and they would have had (ahem) more shots at producing an actual literary genius -- as opposed to a non-literary offspring whose name was allegedly usurped by Edward de Vere.
Incidentally, googling "viagra Shakespeare" does not bring up the Cabinet (no pun intended) -- at least not within the first five pages of search results. Those search results are quite intriguing on their own merits, however.
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