Shakespeare's Bed
As you know, Shakespeare left his wife his "second best bed." Please post your reasons--plausible or not--as to why the Bard did this.
posted by Carson | 9:24 PM
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He left his wife his second best bed because the first bed was worn out from too much...uh...baby...making....
Laurie
Poor Shakespeare, though gifted in many other ways, was ignornant in the identification of the quality of bedroom furniture. The Bard left his wife his second best bed because he actually thought it was the first best bed. Clearly, someone misinformed him...or he skipped class the day they covered The Secret Language of Bedroom Furniture in his literature class.
he died in the best one. who wants to sleep in a dead guy's bed? excluding necrophiliacs, of course.
Seeing as I don't know how to start a new thread on your blog, I have to post this under here. Can someone please tell me (again, seeing as I probably just forgot/wasn't paying attention)what I put in brackets when I'm citing a website? THIS IS GETTING LATE, I KNOW. Help would be super. Thanks.
Also, when do you use "who" and when do you use "whom"?
Sarra is correct about the who/whom thing--the easiest way to remember is that whom is the object and is usually governed by a preposition (to, for, by, et cetera). I really liked how you helped one another out on the Blog thing--and that you voted on my ridiculous polls. Any ideas for other polls? They're easy to make.
Shakespeare left his second best bed to his wife to start a mass of confusion after his death and to get a good laugh out of it. Or maybe his wife didn't *want* the first bed and prefered the second?
-Bekki
What I think you need to do, Mr. Carson, is set up a new post for us to post our ridiculous poll ideas!! That keeps our insanity somewhat organized! :-)
This is easy.
Shakespeare left his "second best bed" to his wife because he left his first best bed to that teenaged actor boy with whom he had been carrying on for years. You know, the one he wrote all those sonnets for?
Just a thought.
The fleas got to the first best bed first...and therefore it wasn't the first best bed anymore. The second best bed was actually the best. Which dear anne got.
his wife got the second best bed because the first best bed was already given to the manservant jose'
maybe there never was a first bed and it was all a big conspiracy to make him look like an ungreatful man?
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