Honoring the Iconoclast: Shakespeare? More like...Suckspeare! Yeah!

Get thou bawdy hides to a room!

Yet again, brave soldiers wander the wastes of the internet to save us from time-wasting hacks like the Bard.


i just read this book. everybody like always talks about how great it is and everything. but i don't think so. like, it's been done before, right?? soooo cliched. omg.


This fearless scholar is obviously referring to selections from The Palace of Pleasure by William Painter, which was in turn inspired by Arthur Brooke's 1562 translation of The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet.  He or she also likely refers to the Roman myth of Pyramus and Thisbe.  


Of course, the author isn't referring to West Side Story or anything else written after 1595; I mean, OMG!!?1!*? Such a lack of historical perspective is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo beneath the prowess of the scholar responsible for the divine prose seen above.