Romeo and Juilet

[Arwon]

I blame King Lear, he should have known nothing would come from nothing.


Also, list of phrases that survive in every day language that Shakespeare coined:

* all corners of the world
* All that glitters is not gold
* as ____ as the day is long
* as luck would have it
* band of brothers
* blinking idiot
* budge an inch (or not)
* catch cold
* charmed life
* dead as a doornail
* devil incarnate
* didn't sleep a wink
* eat me out of house and home
* fair play
* fancy free
* flaming youth
* fool's paradise
* forever and a day
* for goodness' sake
* foul play
* give the devil his due
* good riddance
* green-eyed jealousy
* high time
* hoist by your own petard
* household word
* in a pickle
* in stitches
* in the twinkle of an eye
* into thin air
* It's Greek to me
* laughing stock
* love is blind
* make haste
* method to one's madness
* neither here nor there
* no rhyme or reason
* off with his head!
* Oh woe is me
* one fell swoop
* play fast and loose
* primrose path
* rotten to the core
* seen better days
* send one packing
* short shrift
* sink or swim
* Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them
* sorry sight
* sweets to the sweet
* the game is afoot
* the game is up
* the long and short of it
* there's the rub
* tongue tied
* too much of a good thing
* tower of strength
* Tut, tut!
* under the weather
* Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
* What a piece of work is man
* What is past is prologue
* what the dickens
* wild goose chase
* your own flesh and blood

 

[The Yankee]

And really, its not technically wrong... the whole play is Shakey's fault...

I suppose I do understand the fear that blaming Shakespeare could be a cop out and the assignment was to focus on this as if it were real life events. But, these people are supposed to be star-crossed to this fate, presumably by God. And Shakespeare, in writing this episode, is God.

 

[b etor]

Also, list of phrases that survive in every day language that Shakespeare coined:

* budge an inch (or not)
* catch cold
* foul play
* good riddance
* into thin air
* laughing stock
* neither here nor there
* off with his head!
* tongue tied
* too much of a good thing
* under the weather
* what the dickens
* wild goose chase