An Improbable Fiction
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The Man of Letters or Pierrot’s Alphabet (1794) from the Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design
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I want to use this in a classroom handout sometime…
I don’t know much about Daumier, but I definitely dig his sense of humour. Ah, Achilles and Agamemnon. Fighting heroically one day, huffily sulking the next.
In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted “hurrah.”
The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroicouplet. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
”Reported To Be Actual Answers To Sixth Grade History Tests (via lalumena)
I want to show this to my students at the beginning/end of a Shakespeare unit.
