“The Making of Strange Bedfellows”. A Shakespeare Quotation and Its Propagation of New Proverbs
Starting as a literary quotation, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows” from William Shakespeare’s romance The Tempest (1611) reached somewhat of a proverbial status over time but certainly never became a generally employed folk proverb. That was left to its shortened rephrasing “Misery m...
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2024
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