Saturday, November 14, 2026

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

What’s he that hath so much thy place mistook

To set thee here? 


Lear

King Lear             Act II, Scene iv, Line 11

Lear and his entourage have arrived at Gloster’s castle to find Kent in the stocks. Kent is Lear’s man who was sent ahead to tell Gloster that Lear was on his way. Lear is not happy to find his man Kent in the stocks, and he’s asking him who put him there.

That’s it.

 


Pretty simple and straight-forward, Mr. B.

I know, Mojo, isn’t it? And they say Shakespeare’s hard.

Yeah, I don’t get that either.

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