Tuesday, October 22, 2013

What to Say?

In a formal essay, in a section about Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, one of my students complained that Cleopatra is a "drama queen."

Well, um, yes.

Seriously, I don't think the student was even thinking about what s/he wrote.  What do you say?

2 comments:

  1. ALL early modern queens are drama queens! (Well, OK, Cleopatra isn't technically early modern, but nevertheless, performing queenship would still totally be her job even if she WEREN'T a stage character...)

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  2. "Pun intended?!?"

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