Yup, there are Shakespeare references everywhere. I’ve
been going through boxes of magazines and other things of dubious worth that I’d
been saving. I found a Monty Python 2002 calendar (“Now For Something
Completely Different”), and it contains a Shakespeare reference. On the June
page, there is a joke about “Famous First Drafts,” including a bit of one of
Portia’s speeches from
The Merchant Of
Venice, with “Eeni-meeni-miney-mo” becoming “The quality of mercy is not
strain’d.” Certainly an improvement.
By the way, unrelated to Shakespeare, there is also an
early draft of Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier,” which reads, “Mary had a little
lamb/And it was always gruntin/She tied it to a five bar gate/And kicked its
little cunt in.” Coming from Sterling, Massachusetts (the land of Mary and her
bloody lamb), I have fondness for this bit.
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