BENEDICK: O, she misused me past the endurance of
a block! An oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered
her; my very visor began to assume life and scold with her. She
told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the Prince's
jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon
jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like
a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She speaks
poniards, and every word stabs. If her breath were as terrible
as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would
infect the North Star. I would not marry her though she were
endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed.
She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have
cleft his club to make the fire too. Come, talk not of her. You
shall find her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God
some scholar would conjure her, for certainly, while she is here,
a man may live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary; and people
sin upon purpose, because they would go thither; so indeed all
disquiet, horror, and perturbation follows her.
Biographical aspects of the Sonnets - Examines the worth of Shakespeare's
sonnets in piecing together clues as to the nature of his romantic
life.
Doubtful Plays of Shakespeare - Analysis of evidence supporting the
claim of Shakespearean authorship of several questionable Elizabethan
plays.
Greene's Jealousy of Shakespeare - As early as 1592, Shakespeare's dramatic
work had excited the envy and indignation of his contemporaries,
including the accomplished scholar and dramatist, Robert Greene.
Shakespeare Index - An index of articles on to the Elizabethan dramatist.
The Shakespeare-Bacon Theory - Analysis of the theory that the plays
of William Shakespeare were not written by the man whose biography
we are familiar with, but rather under pseudonym by Lord Chancellor
Francis Bacon.
