{"id":465,"date":"2008-05-26T20:36:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T00:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/465"},"modified":"2013-09-01T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T02:34:15","slug":"question-of-the-week-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/465","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We did a reading of <em>As You Like It<\/em> yesterday, and the question of the best marriage in Shakespeare came up again.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/87>had to say last year<\/a> in response to Cesario, a fellow blogger who suggested that it was the Macbeths:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve heard Harold Bloom express this opinion, and I get the equal partnership aspect, but I find their relationship too dysfunctional and codependent to pay them this compliment. The title &#8220;Best Marriage in Shakespeare&#8221; is a dubious honor, but I think I&#8217;d have to go with Brutus and Portia. They seem like they have a really strong relationship. The fact that it can be torn apart by the assassination is a testament to the earth-shattering significance of that event. We won&#8217;t count the marriages at the end of the comedies, because who knows how they&#8217;ll fare?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But now, I turn the question over to you.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s the best marriage in Shakespeare?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>P.S. Cesario is currently annotating the text of <em>Hamlet<\/em>, scene by scene, on her blog.  <a href=http:\/\/cesario.livejournal.com\/tag\/reading:+hamlet target=_blank>Check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did a reading of As You Like It yesterday, and the question of the best marriage in Shakespeare came up again. Here&#8217;s what I had to say last year in response to Cesario, a fellow blogger who suggested that it was the Macbeths: I&#8217;ve heard Harold Bloom express this opinion, and I get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,91,52,24,25,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-you-like-it","category-hamlet","category-macbeth","category-question","category-reading-group","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}