"De knee bone connected to de hip bone..."
The big bone breakthrough this year was the discovery of what is left of Richard III--under a parking lot in Leicester! Such indignity.
There are many who feel that Dick Three has gotten a bad rep in history, due largely to the Tudor spin doctors and to Shakespeare's play. True or not, it's still a terrific play. And movie, which Anthony Holland. the fine actor/director/theatre coach, said he had watched more than fifty times--and that was forty years ago. Who knows how many times he has seen it now?
Defenders of Richard III, probably now booking passage to pay homage to the royal skeleton, may want to have some sort of revenge by digging up Shakespeare. But that isn't going to happen, for here is Will's epitaph:
"Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones
And curst be he that moves my bones."
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