Never Ever Forever: Taylor Swift and Repetition
Following on from my piece on repeition and quotation in Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop“, I’m taking a look at Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never …
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Recycling at the Thrift Shop: Macklemore and Repetition
My posts about misquoting Shakespeare have made me more alert than usual to the way quotation and repetition feature in …
Misunderstood Shakespeare: Yorrick, We Hardly Knew Thee
Carrying on from my previous piece on misapplying Shakespeare in general (and quoting Polonius in particular), I want to look …
Shakespeare Misquoted, Misunderstood and Misapplied
The linguistic soup we swim around in contains more than a dash of Shakespeare. Tea-towels, fridge-magnets and dictionaries of quotation …
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