1 definition by it's_hard_to_be_the_bard
He is THE bard.
A great English dude from the Renaissance who wrote lots of plays and sonnets like Romeo and Juliet and Richard II (even though he first wrote Richard III, I mean whO gOEs bAcKWaRds????).
He was the will of the people, the king of couplets, the sultan of sonnets, the man who put "I am" in iambic pentameter. Also, many words and phrases that are in our popular language were actually coined by him.
But wasn't everything lovely as a summer's day. That bar he was raising to be that amazing was hard, he had many fans with many demands and writing itself within strict parameters ends up being demanding too.
A great English dude from the Renaissance who wrote lots of plays and sonnets like Romeo and Juliet and Richard II (even though he first wrote Richard III, I mean whO gOEs bAcKWaRds????).
He was the will of the people, the king of couplets, the sultan of sonnets, the man who put "I am" in iambic pentameter. Also, many words and phrases that are in our popular language were actually coined by him.
But wasn't everything lovely as a summer's day. That bar he was raising to be that amazing was hard, he had many fans with many demands and writing itself within strict parameters ends up being demanding too.
Nick Bottom: God, I hate Shakespeare.
Basically everyone: le gasp
...
Shakespeare: A giant lizard with crooked smile, have you seen one?
Random person: Yeah, crocodile.
Shakespeare: But may be not that. Take the Spanish to the English alligator.
Random person: Alligator?
Shakespeare: Yes, a word you've never heard unless you heard of me. Th-
People: He's a genius, how does he do it? He makes it look so easy like there's nothing to it.
Shakespeare: Honestly, I don't know how I do it. I just think the word out in my head and then it's coined. Like the tons of times that I've done it before. Hm, are you bedazzled? Well, you should be because these are words you never heard if not from me.
Basically everyone: le gasp
...
Shakespeare: A giant lizard with crooked smile, have you seen one?
Random person: Yeah, crocodile.
Shakespeare: But may be not that. Take the Spanish to the English alligator.
Random person: Alligator?
Shakespeare: Yes, a word you've never heard unless you heard of me. Th-
People: He's a genius, how does he do it? He makes it look so easy like there's nothing to it.
Shakespeare: Honestly, I don't know how I do it. I just think the word out in my head and then it's coined. Like the tons of times that I've done it before. Hm, are you bedazzled? Well, you should be because these are words you never heard if not from me.
by it's_hard_to_be_the_bard May 31, 2020