Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Shakespeare Reference in Night Shift

I recently revisited Stephen King’s Night Shift, a collection of short stories I hadn’t read since I was in my teens. And, yes, there is a Shakespeare reference. It comes in the story “The Mangler.” One character says, “If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years –” and another character finishes the thought, “One of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare” (p. 82).

Night Shift was published in 1978. The copy I read this time was published in 1984, and includes some photos from the movie Children Of The Corn.

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