Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
I've been with Shakespeare all my life.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.
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