SHAKESPEARE AND THE IDEAL WOMAN!
As The Federal Parliament considers The Honourable Member For Wentworth’s Bill today, it is time to consider what our greatest writer, Shakespeare, has to say about the female of the species.
In one of his supposedly earliest plays (although writers often have several works in their mind at the same time), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the comic character, Launce, always accompanied by his dog, Crab, is discussing a list, or ‘cate-log’, of the vices and virtues of the woman whom he is considering courting with Speed, another of the comic characters in the play.
Speed begins reading the catalogue of the woman’s vices after completing the list of her virtues:
Speed: Here follow her vices…Item. She is slow in words.
Launce: 0 Villain, that set this down among her vices! To be slow in words in a woman’s only virtue. I pray thee, out with ‘t, and place it for her chief virtue.
(The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act III.Scene 1 Lines 329)
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley, The Evolving Gentleman of Stratford
4 thoughts on “SHAKESPEARE AND THE IDEAL WOMAN!”
Launce was very observant of what many men like to see in their womenfolk!!
Well-said, Launce!
Thanks Paul! Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
Dear Chugley, I fear that the debate you refer to in today’s Parliament will not be “slow in words”. I suspect there will be many, many words, and I fear they may not be gentle words by some of the “comic characters” of our Parliament. Long live Shakespeare.
I fear you are correct Milton Mandrill! Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
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