{"id":245,"date":"2007-06-23T07:24:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/245"},"modified":"2011-01-08T17:05:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:05:21","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-antony-and-cleopatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/245","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Antony and Cleopatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ll make the anagram a regular feature on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The barge she sat in, like a burnish&#8217;d throne,<br \/>\nBurn&#8217;d on the water; the poop was beaten gold,<br \/>\nPurple the sails, and so perfumed, that<br \/>\nThe winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver,<br \/>\nWhich to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made<br \/>\nThe water which they beat to follow faster,<br \/>\nAs amorous of their strokes. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The brave Enobarbus talks of when that temptress Cleopatra had tea, perched on her boat &#8212; a pimped-out ride that suffused the great M. Antonius.  <\/p>\n<p>How her skillful work there rushed Antony&#8217;s desires like the River Nile itself. <\/p>\n<p>How he was so hooked that he often went to her website at http:\/\/www.misscleo.org\/.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ll make the anagram a regular feature on Saturdays. From Antony and Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnish&#8217;d throne, Burn&#8217;d on the water; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,74,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-antony-and-cleopatra","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}