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Salon's culture gurus tip you off to their favorite things this week: A bawdy British sketch show, a book on the Bard's better half, the return of the Breeders.
[2008-04-12]

  • The Second-Best Bed

    I haven't read the book, but I have read a lot of Shakespeare and some biographical material, and it always struck me that the "second best bed" remark in his will was some kind of in-joke between them, not him blowing her off of discarding her. It seems perfectly plausible to me that a husband and wife might build up a lifetime of silly stories and jokes between them, and one of them might even write one into a will to give a little smile 'from the beyond'.

    But what do I know?

    -- KitchenGirl
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    Saturday, April 12, 2008 07:29 AM
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