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Joey Zasa says, "All bastards are liars. Shakespeare wrote poems about it."
Did Shakespeare write any poems about all bastards being liars?
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2007-07-29 19:24:09 · 2 answers · asked by Wise@ss 4 in Arts & Humanities Poetry

2 answers

No, but in King Lear the Duke of Gloucester's bastard son Edmund is evil/two-faced and one of Shake's most despicable villains.

2007-07-29 19:31:52 · answer #1 · answered by Jonathan D 5 · 1 0

To be more precise:

King Lear:

Edmund, act I, scene 2:
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,
when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit
of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our
disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as
if we were villains by necessity; fools by
heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and
treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,
by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion
of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish
disposition to the charge of a star! My
father compounded with my mother under the
dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa
major; so that it follows, I am rough and
lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,
had the maidenliest star in the firmament
twinkled on my bastardizing.

2007-07-30 02:19:58 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Annabella-VInylist 7 · 1 0

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