Feb 03 2010
Shakespeare was a bad bad man
Here are a couple of gems of quotes from the Grand Master of English:
“That he is mad, ’tis true; ’tis true ’tis pity; And pity ’tis ’tis true.”
-Hamlet, II,ii
“That that is is.”
-Twelfth Night, IV,ii
Tell me some of your favorite quirky word repetition quotes like these in the comments! Feel free to branch out from the Bard in your search.
“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (I, i, 234)
Story of my life.
@Lynn — “O, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.” -As You Like It, III,ii
What was the reason, if any, behind the use of repetition by Shakespeare?
@Derek - Check this entry out, from the early days of the household blog; it talks a lot about the concept of word repetition in Shakespeare. After you’ve read it, pop back here with any further questions and we’ll chat!
Words. Words? Words!
And in the branching out from the Bard area of quotes, here’s a list of linguistic examples from Wikipedia that should put a smile or two on your faces…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguistic_example_sentences
Oh! Found another good one I knew about years ago…
“The had had and that that problem”