Comments on: “Do you like Shakespeare or somethin?” http://www.bardblog.com/do-you-like-shakespeare-or-somethin/ Quips, Quibbles, Queries, and Quarks from a Quirky Bardolator Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:51:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A.K.Farrar http://www.bardblog.com/do-you-like-shakespeare-or-somethin/comment-page-1/#comment-184 A.K.Farrar Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:42:45 +0000 http://www.bardblog.com/do-you-like-shakespeare-or-somethin/#comment-184 Around the age of 16 I acquired the nick-name 'Shakespeare' - not, I hesitate to add, because of any 'Geekiness' in me - apart from anything else I don't think that breed had evolved - but because the edition of the play we were studying happened to have on it an image of Shakespeare which had an uncanny resemblance to me! (I have to point out I had a goatee early and 'receding hairline' even earlier.) Perhaps the name-calling actually stimulated my interest - one never knows these things. Around the age of 16 I acquired the nick-name ‘Shakespeare’ – not, I hesitate to add, because of any ‘Geekiness’ in me – apart from anything else I don’t think that breed had evolved – but because the edition of the play we were studying happened to have on it an image of Shakespeare which had an uncanny resemblance to me!

(I have to point out I had a goatee early and ‘receding hairline’ even earlier.)

Perhaps the name-calling actually stimulated my interest – one never knows these things.

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