William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT [Re-done]
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Act 1,Scene 3: Inside of Olivia's house. [Enter Sir Toby Belch and Maria.] Toby: What kind of plague is my niece trying to stir up by taking her brother's death this way? I'm sure such brooding is an enemy to life. Maria: But, really, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier these nights. Your niece, my lady, takes great exception to your late hours. Toby: She should learn to accept them before she ever takes any exception to them. Maria: Yes, but you must confine yourself within more modest limits of order. Toby: Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good enough to do drinking in; and so are these boots; or, if they're not, then let them go hang themselves in their own straps! Maria: Your quaffing and guzzling will undo you. I heard my lady speak of that possibility yesterday—and of some foolish knight you brought in here a few evenings ago to be her new lover. Toby: Who? Sir Andrew Aguecheek? Maria: Yes, him. Toby: He is as tall a man as any in Illyria. Maria: What does that prove? Toby: He happens to have an income of three thousand ducats a year. Maria: Yes, but in a year's time all those ducats will have killed him. He is a fool and a wastrel.
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William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT [Re-done] is a very diligent attempt to put into 'Modern Dress' Shakespeare's original play. The process was arduous, and it involved trying to retain Shakespearean form at least hugely. [One salient (and silly?) deviation from basic faithfulness could be the apparently capricious altering of 'the Elephant' to 'Camel's Inn.'] A quite pervasive idea in terms of all practical considerations was something very much like the careful restoration of an old photograph or an old painting. After all, Shakespeare lived near London over 400 years ago, and his language decidedly is not our language. The passages in Verse were mostly not very altered in terms of sheer length, whereas for possible clarity's sake the ~Re-done~ Nonverse aspect often tends to be more fully wordy than was true in Shakespeare's own rendition.
About the Author
Bruce Hamilton, a rather solitary Californian, attended Yale College for two years. He assiduously has devoted most of his literary practicing to such basic pieces as limericks and sonnets. His recent "literary hero" was and still is Jorge Luis Borges, toward whose pessimisms about language and literature he remains sympathetic.