{"id":235,"date":"2007-06-15T07:44:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/235"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:26:07","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-richard-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/235","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Richard III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking inspiration from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/232\">amazing anagram<\/a> of the speech from <em>Hamlet<\/em>, I decided to try my own hand at anagramming Shakespeare. Here is my first attempt, taken from the first lines of <em>King Richard III<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now is the winter of our discontent<br \/>\nMade glorious summer by this sun of York;<br \/>\nAnd all the clouds that lour&#8217;d upon our house<br \/>\nIn the deep bosom of the ocean buried.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The too-sinful Gloucester (later &#8211; ouch! &#8211; dubbed Richard III), by odious puns on nouns, unkindly compares the momentous War of the Roses end to the foul-mood weather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was fun! Maybe I&#8217;ll make this a regular feature.<\/p>\n<p><!--c61dd99fa5e7a5cf8697b1ca0849eb65--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking inspiration from the amazing anagram of the speech from Hamlet, I decided to try my own hand at anagramming Shakespeare. Here is my first attempt, taken from the first lines of King Richard III: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,113,92,3,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-histories","category-richard-iii","category-shakespeare","category-plantagenets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6259,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/6259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}