"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth ""How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth"" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American animated science fiction television series """", the 21st episode overall. It first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup on October 5, 1974, and was written by Russell Bates and David Wise. The title comes from Act 1, Scene 4 of William Shakespeare's ""King Lear"": ""How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"" In this episode, the ""Enterprise"" must contend with alien entity that demands it be worshipped as a god. The"
"The Disobedient Child The Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude written c.1560 by Thomas Ingelend (an author who is known only as a ""late student of Cambridge"", as described on the first edition's title-page) and first performed in a Tudor hall. This play contains the famous line: ""None is so deaf as who will not hear."" It deals with the subject of the proper disciplinary treatment of children, raising the threat of the evil of those raised without strict discipline. It portrays a young man who is eager to marry despite his father's objections, and the unhappiness of his"
"that of ""The Taming of the Shrew"", one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, which help to date the slightly later Shrew. There are also remarks in ""Greene's Groatsworth of Wit"", his 1592 pamphlet satirising his fellow playwrights, which have been argued provide evidence of Greene's annoyance that the up-and-coming Shakespeare had re-written some of the Knack to Know a Knave text; however, this remains controversial. The play tells the story of the four sons of the mortally ill bailiff of Hexham living in 10th century England. On his deathbed the Bailiff advises his sons ""Live to yourselves while you have time"
"vague one. The grief can echo also in one of the most painful passages Shakespeare ever wrote, in the end of ""King Lear"" where the ruined monarch recognizes his daughter is dead: ""No, no, no life! / Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, / Never, never, never, never, never!"" Michael Wood suggests in ""In Search of Shakespeare"" that sonnet 33 might have nothing to do with the so-called ""Fair Youth"" sonnets, that it alludes to the death of the poet's son, Hamnet in 1596 at"
"life. The conversation between Lady Macduff and her child heightens the pathos, and is preparatory for the deep tragedy of their assassination. Shakspeare's fondness for children is every where shown;—in Prince Arthur, in King John; in the sweet scene in the Winter's Tale between Hermione and her son; nay, even in honest Evans's examination of Mrs. Page's schoolboy. To the objection that Shakspeare wounds the moral sense by the unsubdued, undisguised description of the most hateful atrocity—that he tears the feelings without mercy, and even outrages the eye itself with scenes of insupportable horror—I, omitting ""Titus Andronicus"", as not genuine,"
"two other works by Angela Carter: ""The Bloody Chamber"" and ""Nights at the Circus"". Throughout the novel, there are numerous references to the works and impact of William Shakespeare. At the beginning of the novel there are three quotations, two of which allude to Shakespeare: """"Brush Up on Your Shakespeare"""", a song title from the musical ""Kiss Me, Kate"" based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"", and the quote ""How many times Shakespeare draws fathers and daughters, never mothers and daughters"" by Ellen Terry, an English stage actress. In an interview on the subject of ""Wise Children"", Angela Carter"
"from heaven, but vices sent from hell."" The most famous tribute to Marlowe was paid by Shakespeare in ""As You Like It"", where he not only quotes a line from ""Hero and Leander"" (""Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, 'Who ever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight?) but also gives to the clown Touchstone the words ""When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room."" This appears to be a reference to Marlowe's"
"English work, into a drama of much higher intensity and literary merit than the original in any way suggested."" The Disobedient Child The Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude written c.1560 by Thomas Ingelend (an author who is known only as a ""late student of Cambridge"", as described on the first edition's title-page) and first performed in a Tudor hall. This play contains the famous line: ""None is so deaf as who will not hear."" It deals with the subject of the proper disciplinary treatment of children, raising the threat of the evil of those raised without strict discipline."
"by comparing her son to Hamlet. Later he tries to come between them, as Hamlet had done with his mother and her new husband. The tragic developments in the plot follow in part from the scorn the mother shows for her son's play. Shakespeare adopted the play-within-a-play device for many of his other plays as well, including ""A Midsummer Night's Dream""and ""Love's Labours Lost"". Almost the whole of ""The Taming of the Shrew"" is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to"
"and Cressida"" (1609). Shakespeare's Pandarus is more of a bawd than Chaucer's, and he is a lecherous and degenerate individual. In ""The Duke's Children"" by Anthony Trollope when the Duke of Omnium suspects Mrs Finn of encouraging his daughter's romance he refers to her as a 'she-Pandarus'. In ""The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea"" by Yukio Mishima, Pandarus is mentioned briefly during an internal contemplation by the character Ryuji Tsukazaki. The plot function of the aging lech Pandarus in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's famous works has given rise to the English terms ""a pander"" (in later usage ""a"
"such scholar was Jan Kott. Speaking of its apparent gratuitous violence, Kott argued that ""Titus Andronicus"" is by no means the most brutal of Shakespeare's plays. More people die in ""Richard III"". ""King Lear"" is a much more cruel play. In the whole Shakespearean repertory I can find no scene so revolting as Cordelia's death. In reading, the cruelties of ""Titus"" can seem ridiculous. But I have seen it on the stage and found it a moving experience. Why? In watching ""Titus Andronicus"" we come to understand – perhaps more than by looking at any other Shakespeare play – the"
"role in Anne Tyler's novel A Spool of Blue Thread. The Prodigal Son was also referred to in the play ""The Merchant Of Venice"" as well as ""As You Like It"", pastoral comedies by William Shakespeare. The Prodigal Son is also mentioned in Shakespeare's romance, ""The Winter's Tale"" (Act 4, Scene 4 line 89). A similar parable of a lost son can also be found in the Mahayana Buddhist Lotus Sutra. The two parables are so similar in their outline and many details that several scholars have assumed that one version has influenced the other or that both texts share"
"were usually meant to humiliate the guilty party. They included the imposition of the ducking stool, pillory, jougs, a shrew's fiddle, or a scold's bridle. ""Scold"" or ""shrew"" was a term which could be applied with different degrees of reprobation, and one early modern proverb allowed that ""a shrew profitable may serve a man reasonable"". Shrew (stock character) The shrew – an unpleasant, ill-tempered woman characterised by scolding, nagging, and aggression – is a comedic, stock character in literature and folklore, both Western and Eastern. The best-known work with this theme is probably Shakespeare's play ""The Taming of the Shrew""."
"Sonnet 66 Sonnet 66 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 66 is a world-weary, desperate list of grievances of the state of the poet's society. The speaker criticizes three things: general unfairness of life, societal immorality, and oppressive government. Lines 2 and 3 illustrate the economic unfairness caused by one's station or nobility: <poem> As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, (66.2-3) </poem> Lines 4-7 portray"
"opening (where the producers were sued over the show's content) saying, ""Jupiter will be in opposition to naughty Saturn, and the show opens the very day of the sun's eclipse. Terrible."" But there was no astrologically safe time in the near future. ""Hair"" makes many references to Shakespeare's plays, especially ""Romeo and Juliet"" and ""Hamlet"", and, at times, takes lyrical material directly from Shakespeare. For example, the lyrics to the song ""What a Piece of Work Is Man"" are from ""Hamlet"" (II: scene 2) and portions of ""Flesh Failures"" (""the rest is silence"") are from Hamlet's final lines. In ""Flesh"
"a replacement for his dead son is related to Hamnet's death, or whether ""Romeo and Juliet"" is a tragic reflection of the loss of a son, or Alonso's guilt over his son's death in ""The Tempest"" is related. Sonnet 37 may have also been written in response to Hamnet's death. Shakespeare says in it, ""As a decrepit father takes delight / To see his active child do deeds of youth / So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spight / Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth."" Still, if this is an allusion to Hamnet, it is a"
"are referenced using Folger Through Line Number: a separate line numbering scheme that includes every line of text in the play. The quality of mercy (Shakespeare quote) ""The quality of mercy"" is a quote by Portia in William Shakespeare's ""The Merchant of Venice""; it occurs during Act 4, Scene 1, set in a Venetian Court of Justice. It is the speech in which Portia begs Shylock for mercy. The speech is regarded as one of the great speeches in Shakespeare, and it is an example of the esteem Shakespeare held for those who showed mercy. The speech is regarded as"
"to the family house, where the now tamed woman lectures her sister on the merits of being an obedient wife. The taming in this version is much more physical than in Shakespeare; the shrew is beaten with birch rods until she bleeds, and is then wrapped in the salted flesh of a plough horse (the Morrelle of the title). ""Merry Jest"" was not unknown to earlier editors of the play, and had been dismissed as a source by A.R. Frey, W.C. Hazlitt, R. Warwick Bond and Frederick S. Boas. Modern editors also express doubt as to Hosley's argument. In 1966,"
"some of Henry's harsher traits as Shakespeare wrote them – such as his remorseless beheading of the three Southampton Plot traitors: Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge; Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham; and Sir Thomas Grey; his threat to unleash his troops to rape and pillage Harfleur if the city refused to surrender; the cutting of the throats of French prisoners during the battle at Agincourt; as well as his refusal to stop the hanging of his old friend Bardolph for looting. The melancholy reference at the end of the play to how England under Henry VI"
"believed that Shakespeare in his retirement was revising his oeuvre ""for definitive publication"". The ""apprentice plays"" which had been reworked were naturally omitted from the Folio. Sams also rejected 20th-century orthodoxy on Shakespeare's collaboration: with the exception of ""Sir Thomas More"", ""Two Noble Kinsmen"" and ""Henry VIII"", the plays were solely his, though many were only partly revised. By Sams' authorship- and dating-arguments, Shakespeare wrote not only the earliest ""modern"" chronicle play, ""The Troublesome Reign"", c.1588, but also ""the earliest known modern comedy and tragedy"", ""A Shrew"" and the Ur-""Hamlet"" ( = the 1603 Quarto). Sams also argued, more briefly,"
"by Shakespeare. However, Capell's conclusion was only supported by mostly German scholars. In recent years, professional Shakespeare scholars have increasingly reviewed the work with a new eye, and have concluded that some passages are as sophisticated as any of Shakespeare's early histories, especially ""King John"" and the ""Henry VI"" plays. In addition, passages in the play are direct quotes from Shakespeare's sonnets, most notably the line ""lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds"" (sonnet 94) and the phrase ""scarlet ornaments"", used in sonnet 142. Stylistic analysis has also produced evidence that at least some scenes were written by Shakespeare."
"before. ""Every Man Out of His Humour"" includes several references to Shakespeare and his contemporaneous works: a mention of Justice Silence from ""Henry IV, Part 2""—""this is a kinsman to Justice Silence"" (V,ii) and two allusions to ""Julius Caesar"", which help to date that play to 1599. ""Et tu, Brute"" occurs in V,iv of ""Every Man Out;"" in III,i appears ""reason long since is fled to animals,"" a paraphrase of Shakespeare's line ""O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts"" in ""Julius Caesar,"" III,ii,104. Paul's walk Every Man out of His Humour Every Man out of His Humour is a"
"title for an extant play. Historically, a reference to ""Love's Labour's Won"" (in Francis Meres's ""Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury"", 1598) predates the construction of the Globe Theatre (1599). The Doctor and Martha make numerous references to Shakespeare's appearance: she notes that he looks nothing like his portrait, and wonders why he is not bald, while the Doctor says he could make his head bald if he rubs it and later gives him a ruff to keep (calling it ""a neck brace""). Shakespeare himself speaks with a noticeable Midlands accent, a reference to his birth and upbringing in Stratford-upon-Avon. The episode"
"The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice (Antonio) must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and it is best known for Shylock and the famous ""Hath not a Jew eyes?"" speech on humanity. Also notable is Portia's speech about ""the quality of"
"the play in 1661, and in his ""Diary"" he deplored the play's violation of the unities of time and place. Yet by the end of the period, John Downes noted that ""Hamlet"" was staged more frequently and profitably than any other play in Betterton's repertory. In addition to Hamlet's worth as a tragic hero, Restoration critics focused on the qualities of Shakespeare's language and, above all, on the question of tragic decorum. Critics disparaged the indecorous range of Shakespeare's language, with Polonius's fondness for puns and Hamlet's use of ""mean"" (i.e., low) expressions such as ""there's the rub"" receiving particular"
"made of a handkerchief, though for different ends. Not many works on jealousy in any era, except for ""The Winter's Tale"", would be near ""Othello"" in emotional impact. Nevertheless, some of the characters are pale images of other Jacobean plays, for example Mura, the blunt soldier, tame in comparison to Mardonius in ""A King and No King"" by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. But although generally weak in poetic utterance, the play has a few strong scenes of dramatic conflict, especially father versus son and half-brother against half-brother. Competition between family members, especially brothers, is an important characteristic of the"
"an obedient wife. Shakespeare chose his title to signify to his audiences that the play was about the marriage of a man to an ill-tempered woman given to scolding, nagging, and aggression. Such a woman, especially a wife, was known in the sixteenth century as a shrew, so called after a tiny rodent with a notoriously hostile and unpleasant nature. A woman convicted in court for being a shrew was often punished in Shakespeare's day by being confined to stocks on the village green or repeatedly dunked in a nearby pond or lake. The setting is Padua, a city in"
"a monster. Hamlet knows that he must avenge the death of his father, but he is too indecisive, too self-doubting, to carry this out until he has no choice. His failings cause his downfall, and he exhibits some of the most basic human reactions and emotions. Shakespeare's characters were complex and human in nature. By making the protagonist's character development central to the plot, Shakespeare changed what could be accomplished with drama. All references to ""Hamlet"", unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Arden Shakespeare Q2. Under their referencing system, 3.1.55 means act 3, scene 1, line 55. All references"
"Ungoliant and all her progeny (which includes Shelob of ""The Lord of the Rings""). A plethora of Shakespearian quotes and misquotes peppers ""Babylon 5"" dialogue, Macbeth being a notable favorite. ""Hamlet"" is also a popular source; the season 5 episode ""The Paragon of Animals"" takes its name from the play. ""The Quality of Mercy (Babylon 5)"" takes its name from a quote from the beginning of Portia's oration in Shakespeare's ""Merchant of Venice"", Act IV, scene one. Two episodes highlight the influence of the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The Battle of the Line"
"based on the 1623 First Folio. Under this referencing system, 1.2.51 means Act 1, Scene 2, line 51. The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew."
"literature up until the 20th century depicts the Jew as ""a monied, cruel, lecherous, avaricious outsider tolerated only because of his golden hoard"". Many modern readers and theatregoers have read the play as a plea for tolerance, noting that Shylock is a sympathetic character. They cite as evidence that Shylock's ""trial"" at the end of the play is a mockery of justice, with Portia acting as a judge when she has no right to do so. The characters who berated Shylock for dishonesty resort to trickery in order to win. In addition, Shakespeare gives Shylock one of his most eloquent"
"a play"" in 1520. T. W. Craik suggests a date of 1508 while MacCracken offers sometime in the late 15th century. The World and the Child The World and the Child () is an anonymous English morality play. Its source is a late 14th-century or 15th-century poem ""The Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life"", from which the play borrows significantly while reducing the number of characters. It is thought to have influenced William Shakespeare's ""Henry IV, Part 1"". The earliest surviving edition (printed by Wynkyn de Worde) is dated 17 July 1522, although the play is believed to have"
"eloquence to beg Shylock for mercy after traveling from the fictional town of Belmont to Venice. Mercy and forgiveness are enduring themes that pervade Shakespeare's works. The quote is an example of the esteem Shakespeare held for those who showed mercy as expressed in his poetry. Shakespeare presented mercy as a quality most valuable to the most powerful, strongest and highest people in society. Professor Harold Fisch, formerly of Bar-Ilan University, argued that the words of “My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as"