Obli-viola-ous
For those of you not familiar with Twelfth Night , it is one of the many plays featuring a girl who, for some obscure reason, decides to dress up as a boy, with the requisite hysterical consequences.
In Twelfth Night, Viola pretends to be the boy Cesario and, on the whole, does a really rotten job. Even taking into account the fact that Viola would originally have been played by a boy, all the characters in the play keep commenting on how woman-like "he" is. Viola doesn't do herself any favors by repeatedly dropping huge hints like "I am not what I am", "I am all the daughters of my father's house", "I am almost sick [for a beard], though I would not have it grow on my chin", and so forth.
Fortunately for her, the other characters appear to have all the perceptive abilities and deductive insights of a twig.
O, For a Muse of Fire!
Greetings and welcome to my semi-Shakespearean blog/webcomic thing! Apart from Shakespeare, which is at least nominally the focus of this online endeavor, I shall also be covering other such diverse topics as library cataloging, rock climbing, musical theater and whatever else pops into my head.
Updates promised in good faith for every Wednesday and Saturday.
