Pale Fire: A Magazine in 12 Projects Group Three | Page 22

manner.
I would advise you to stick to
BARD OF AVON
the evidence alone Will.
[ scoffing ]
To imply that a mere novel is
even on par with the work of
Shakespeare would be down-
right mad. That man should
be fed to the dogs… and dogs
are a common theme in that
play
are
they
not?
Every
scoundrel is referred to as a
dog. That is not the only
place we see dogs as a recur-
ring theme. In a scene of pur-
suit we have: “he paid no at-
tention to Gradus who trav-
ersed the room, stepped over
a fat little white dog without
awakening it…” (282), this dog
did not appear earlier in the
scene. It is almost as if some- BARD OF AVON
Very well.
one had gone back and filled Pulling directly [ said pointed-
in empty or boring parts of ly at Mr. Shade with some-
his novel with excerpts from- thing that looked almost like
an eye roll ] from the text of
MR. SHADE Reaching again!
the poem we have yet anoth-
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