Ophelia is a song by The Band. Although I’m a fan of the band The Band, this blog post is neither about the song by The Band nor about the band.
Ophelia is one of the moons of one of the planets in our solar system. However, I am not going to touch, even with a ten-foot pole, wordplay on either ‘Uranus’ or ‘moon’.
This blog post is about a pun. What a surprise! A blog post by J. Marie Croft about wordplay ... of all things!
The best line I’ve had directed at me in a very long time came just the other day, and it was from a well-known authoress in the Austen genre. Her comment was in response to my very first interview, which was conducted by Mary Simonsen (The Second Date, Searching for Pemberley, and Anne Elliot, A New Beginning) at Austen Authors.
If you’re interested, here’s the interview link.
Anyway, Regina Jeffers (Darcy’s Passions, Darcy’s Dreams/Temptation, Vampire Darcy’s Desire, Honor and Hope, The Phantom of Pemberley, and Scandal of Lady Eleanor) said, and I quote:
“Ah, ... get thee to a punnery, Ms. Croft!!! Entertaining and fun to read...thank you for sharing.”
For those not familiar with the reference, “get thee to a punnery” is wordplay on a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The title character says to Ophelia "get thee to a nunnery." Ok, I have to confess ... I knew it was Shakespeare; but ... tsk, tsk ... I had to research from which play the quote came.
Ophelia is one of the moons of one of the planets in our solar system. However, I am not going to touch, even with a ten-foot pole, wordplay on either ‘Uranus’ or ‘moon’.
This blog post is about a pun. What a surprise! A blog post by J. Marie Croft about wordplay ... of all things!
The best line I’ve had directed at me in a very long time came just the other day, and it was from a well-known authoress in the Austen genre. Her comment was in response to my very first interview, which was conducted by Mary Simonsen (The Second Date, Searching for Pemberley, and Anne Elliot, A New Beginning) at Austen Authors.
If you’re interested, here’s the interview link.
Anyway, Regina Jeffers (Darcy’s Passions, Darcy’s Dreams/Temptation, Vampire Darcy’s Desire, Honor and Hope, The Phantom of Pemberley, and Scandal of Lady Eleanor) said, and I quote:
“Ah, ... get thee to a punnery, Ms. Croft!!! Entertaining and fun to read...thank you for sharing.”
For those not familiar with the reference, “get thee to a punnery” is wordplay on a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The title character says to Ophelia "get thee to a nunnery." Ok, I have to confess ... I knew it was Shakespeare; but ... tsk, tsk ... I had to research from which play the quote came.
Mary Catherine Bolton
(1790-1830)
as Ophelia
in Shakespeare's Hamlet
1813
Now, if someone would please just point me in the direction of a punnery, I'll be on my merry way.
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