Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

 

Nay. In that you are astray, ‘twere best pound you.

 

Proteus

Two Gentlemen of Verona              Act I Scene i, Line 110

 

And here we are at the beginning of the play. Yesterday we were at the end. Today’s line is part of an interchange between Proteus and Speed. The latter just delivered a love letter to Julia for Proteus, and they are discussing her response which, apparently, was a non-response.

Rather than get into the wordplay of this exchange, I thought it might be interesting to note that yesterday, in Act V near the end of the play, Proteus is all about Silvia. Today, in Act I at the beginning, he’s all about Julia. This is similar in that respect to another of Will’s more famous plays where in Act I the titular hero is in love with Rosaline and in Act V he dies with his lover Juliet. That’s right, I’m talking about Romeo and Juliet.

I don’t think we ever find out what happened to Julia or Rosaline. They become forgotten ladies. Hopefully they both found happiness elsewhere.   

I came across this picture yesterday. That's a younger me with Grumpy Bear in her Little Red Riding Hood outfit. We were at some event at Quinnipiac, but that's not why I picked this picture for today. 

See that woman on the right, smiling at the camera? She's not with us, even though for all the world it appears that she is. I have no idea who she is. 

So, in the story of this picture, she is the forgotten lady. Hopefully she found happiness with that guy behind her (the guy with the tree growing out of his head), but we'll never know. Will we?