Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Line(s)

 

This fever, that hath trembled me so long,

Lies heavy on me;--  O, my heart is sick!

 

-King John

John                                     Act V, Scene iii, Line 3

 

There’s not too much to this. It’s a short scene near the end of the play, and John’s going to be dying shortly. The Shakespeare version is that John has been poisoned by a monk. History, however, says it was dysentery that killed John.

Will does a pretty good job in his history plays of telling the story of a bunch of England’s kings. But make no mistake: his main purpose was to entertain, not to teach. He was a dramatist, not a history teacher. And poisoning is much more interesting than dysentery.

Another one of those days where I looked all over for a pic and came up empty.