{"id":271,"date":"2021-11-29T01:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T01:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-1\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2021-12-03T22:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:23:50","slug":"in-praise-of-tragedy-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/in-praise-of-tragedy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Wortley Clutterbuck<\/h5>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-271-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/A01.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/A01.mp3\">https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/A01.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>Featuring some of our favorite characters from Shakespeare.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recalling Benedick, that swell,<\/p>\n<p>romancing Beatrice, \u2018tho hell;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018tis evident his taste is meet<\/p>\n<p>and courting her is quite the feat;<\/p>\n<p>we all applaud his waggish flair,<\/p>\n<p>acknowledging he<em>\u2019s<\/em> debonair;<\/p>\n<p>there<em>\u2019s ev\u2019ry reason to surmise<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>he\u2019ll win her heart as well her thighs,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>but he\u2019s a beardless boy \u2018til he<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>can plight his troth to tragedy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Petruchio, he knows his broads<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and often will out-wit the odds;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>but Katherina is no dunce<\/p>\n<p>and it is she whom he confronts;<\/p>\n<p>their quarrels and complaints are cute<\/p>\n<p>while their inklings circumvolute;<\/p>\n<p>and \u2018tho his suit seems roseate<\/p>\n<p>and we give praise to his vast wit,<\/p>\n<p>he is jejune \u2018til tragedy<\/p>\n<p>accedes to him a wife to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perpend then Falstaff\u2019s comic pose<\/p>\n<p>whose wicked quips proffered shadows<\/p>\n<p>of checquer\u2019d fate. But still we laugh<\/p>\n<p>at ev\u2019ry arbitrary gaffe;<\/p>\n<p>now, I\u2019m not saying, drinking sack<\/p>\n<p>and playing noddy is thine tack;<\/p>\n<p>but hubris, as a gen\u2019ral trait,<\/p>\n<p>was Sir John\u2019s fate to impetrate;<\/p>\n<p>so if ye marry surquedry,<\/p>\n<p>thine almanac be tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Tis possible Orlando might<\/p>\n<p>salute the lines that you indite;<\/p>\n<p>it wasn\u2019t very subtle what<\/p>\n<p>he rhymed upon those tree trunks cut;<\/p>\n<p>who knows what cures quaint Ganymede<\/p>\n<p>might offer you should he proofread<\/p>\n<p>those stanzas that perhaps chagrined<\/p>\n<p>someone as fair as Rosalind;<\/p>\n<p>the best lines cut into a tree<\/p>\n<p><em>are oft revised by tragedy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wortley Clutterbuck Featuring some of our favorite characters from Shakespeare. &nbsp; Recalling Benedick, that swell, romancing Beatrice, \u2018tho hell; \u2018tis evident his taste is meet and courting her is quite the feat; we all applaud his waggish flair, acknowledging he\u2019s debonair; there\u2019s ev\u2019ry reason to surmise he\u2019ll win her heart as well her thighs, but&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/in-praise-of-tragedy-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Praise of Tragedy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-271","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}