Shakespeare Reference in The Red Sox Fan’s Little Book Of Wisdom

Curt Smith’s The Red Sox Fan’s Little Book Of Wisdom: A Fine Sense Of The Ridiculous contains one Shakespeare reference. Each page has its own playful title, and one of those titles is “The fault lies in ourselves, not our stars” (p. 19). That refers to Cassius’ speech to Brutus in Act I Scene ii of Julius Caesar, where he says, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,/But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

The Red Sox Fan’s Little Book Of Wisdom: A Fine Sense Of The Ridiculous was first published in 1994. My copy is the Second Edition, published in 2002.