Lady Gaga was Shakespeare? Say it ain’t so
The people over at the American Shakespeare Center or ASC have recently discovered that it was Lady Gaga who wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays and they have the proof to back it up. Don’t you just love the picture too?
- This excerpt from Timon of Athens, IV, iii reads like a Gaga manifesto outlining her “Love Game”:
“Hadst thou. . . proceeded
The sweet degrees that this brief world affords
To such as may the passive drugs of it
Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself
In general riot; melted down thy youth
In different beds of lust; and never learn’d
The icy precepts of respect, but follow’d
The sugar’d game before thee. But myself,
Who had the world as my confectionary,
The mouths, the tongues, the eyes and hearts of men. . .
That numberless upon me stuck as leaves
Do on the oak. . . Fell from their boughs and left me open, bare.” - In The Taming of the Shrew, III, ii, she describes her own sense of style and how important fashion is:
“with a linen stock on one leg and a
kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red
and blue list; an old hat and ‘the humour of forty
fancies’ pricked in’t for a feather: a monster, a
very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian
footboy or a gentleman’s lackey. - In this quote from Hamlet, V.i, isn’t the Melancholie Prince really saying that he can’t read a poker face?
“Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar?” - The Winter’s Tale, IV.iv, reiterates what Our Lady Gaga has said numerous times regarding how she likes to play: “if it be rough, it will please plentifully.”
- Sonnet XX is reminiscent of and mirrors her “Bad Romance”––it’s clear as day!
But since she prick’d thee out for women’s pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their treasure. - In Hamlet, I.i, Lady Gaga points out an integral component to looking good and encourages all women to follow suit:
“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another”
- Beautiful, dirty, rich––this Merchant of Venice, I.i, line has Gaga all over it: “I owe the most, in money and in love.”
- In A Comedy of Errors, V.i, Lady Gaga describes her liberation and her meteoric rise to success:
“gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain’d my freedom, and immediately Ran hither to your grace.”
- In Cymbeline, I.i, she even talks about the tattoo on her wrist.
“Peace, dear lady daughter, peace! Sweet sovereign.”
And the number one reason why we think Lady Gaga is the true author of the work commonly attributed to William Shakespeare is…
- In Much Ado about Nothing, II.i, she comes right out and reveals her identity: “Troth, my lord, I have played the part of lady fame.”
But really, I didn’t know the ASC had a sense of humor or that they even existed for that matter. I might start checking them out. I do like Shakespeare. And Lady Gaga does seem to be everywhere doing everything. She writes her own music, created her image…has her own headphones line etc, etc, She’s now a creative director for Polaroid cameras and going on Oprah Friday. She might as well have written Shakespeare.
Kagehime
Contest Fever
For the past month I’ve had contest fever. I’ve also gotten those around me to participate. I’ve entered a lot of contests and won things here and there. The contest I entered most recently was for Vans in which I had to design a shoe. It was due not too long ago, so I still don’t know how I did. The first place winner gets a new mac computer, a 500 dollar shopping spree for Vans, and their design goes on a shoe. The runners up get a shoe with the winner’s design.
Here’s the shoe design I entered:
The theme of the shoe is music. I put music notes on the side, a person listening to music on the front, and head phones in the back (although you can’t really see them). I’m afraid that the person may look too much like the people in the itunes commercial. What do you think?
Kagehime's Pop Heart 