{"id":331,"date":"2016-05-08T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/?p=331"},"modified":"2016-05-08T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:03:03","slug":"shakespeare-sport-400-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/2016\/05\/08\/shakespeare-sport-400-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare on sport – 400 years on."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Craig Sharp<\/strong><\/p>\n

400 years after the death of the bard many continue to reflect upon the use of the word sport in the works of William Shakespeare.\u00a0http:\/\/www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca\/Archives\/Brewster\/shake.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This small contribution continues such a tradition.<\/p>\n

“He\u2026hath drawn him and the rest of their company from their sport, to make another experiment of his suspicion.” (Mistress Page to Mistress Ford.Merry Wives of Windsor IV.ii.31).<\/p>\n

“This sport well carried shall be chronicled” (Helena to Hermia Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream III.ii.240).<\/p>\n

“O Jesu this is excellent sport.” Hal to Falstaff. Henry 4 part 1. II.iv.383. Could be a comment on the whole marathon, with its 35,000 or whatever runners.<\/p>\n

“Sport and repose lock from me day and night.” (from the visiting players Hamlet III.ii.227).<\/p>\n

“I have some sport in hand, wherein your cunning can assist me much.” (Lord to players; Taming of the Shrew. Induction I.90).<\/p>\n

“The body of our sport, of no small study.” (Two Noble Kinsman. Schoolmaster to all III.v.120).<\/p>\n

“He is given to sports, to wildness and much company.” (Julius Caesar. Brutus to Cassius II.1.189).<\/p>\n

“I wish ye sport” (Imogen to Guiderius;Cymbeline IV.ii.31).<\/p>\n

“For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,<\/p>\n

Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up.” (Prospero to Caliban:<\/p>\n

The Tempest I,ii.325).<\/p>\n

“What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance,<\/p>\n

And run a-tilt at death within a chair?” (PUCELLE in Henry VI)<\/p>\n

“This push will chair me ever, or dis-seat me now.” (Macbeth to a servant. Macbeth V, ii. 21).<\/p>\n

“With thy brawls, thou hast disturbed our sport.” (Titania to Oberon. Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream II.i.87).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Craig Sharp 400 years after the death of the bard many continue to reflect upon the use of the word sport in the works of William Shakespeare.\u00a0http:\/\/www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca\/Archives\/Brewster\/shake.html This small contribution continues such a tradition. “He\u2026hath drawn him and the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dialogue","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/sport-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}