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(Neatorama) Interesting Shakespeare's bear in "The Winter's Tale" may have been portrayed by an actual bear. Huh... how about that? *subby exits, pursued by a bear*   (neatorama.com) divider line 29
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Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2012-01-12 07:40:26 PM
+1 From the pit.
 
Arkanaut
2012-01-12 07:56:33 PM
They'll allow bears, but no women?
 
ConConHead
2012-01-12 07:57:25 PM
Bearbaiting would look much more bloody with a polar bear than your typical European bear.

/Go away, 'baiting
 
fusillade762
2012-01-12 07:58:52 PM
Winter bear?

i1.kym-cdn.com
 
Loucifer
2012-01-12 08:01:16 PM
You sure it was a bear?

4.bp.blogspot.com
 
Nem Wan
2012-01-12 08:05:30 PM
Arkanaut: They'll allow bears, but no women?

1.bp.blogspot.com
 
Cagey B
2012-01-12 08:06:47 PM
There may be in the cup
A spider steeped, and one may drink, depart,
And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
Is not infected: but if one present
Th' abhorred ingredient to his eye, make known
How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
With violent hefts. I have drunk,
AH JESUS CHRIST IT'S RIPPING MY ARMS OFF
 
TheOther
2012-01-12 08:11:04 PM
If you prick a bear, will you not bleed?
 
Gunny Highway
2012-01-12 08:40:55 PM
Isnt this common-ish knowledge. Im pretty sure a teacher of mine along the way told me this.

Common knowledge or not, it is awesome.
 
no icon tact
2012-01-12 08:45:03 PM
I played Polixenes, king of Bohemia in a production of 'The Winter's Tale'. AND, I was the bottom half of the bear, top half was female with mask.

/Does not the stone rebuke me for being more stoned than it?
 
kyoryu [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 09:08:15 PM
Was it all black and brown and covered with hair?
 
Lone Stranger
2012-01-12 09:21:45 PM
i89.photobucket.com
 
moothemagiccow
2012-01-12 09:31:43 PM
no it wasnt
 
Gunny Highway
2012-01-12 09:33:42 PM
moothemagiccow: no it wasnt

Why not?
 
Surool
2012-01-12 09:38:46 PM
The Elizabethan Threatdown: #1 Bears


So, Mr Shakespeare was the Michael Bay of Elizabethan Play directors.
 
Wasn't Looking at his Neck
2012-01-12 09:40:10 PM
Was probably going south. To mate with birds.

/Bears are crazy.
 
Sim Tree [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 09:50:33 PM
Arkanaut: They'll allow bears, but no women?

Perhaps it was a male bear.
 
DrZiffle
2012-01-12 09:52:48 PM
Enter Macduff, carrying Macbeth's head.
 
brap [TotalFark]
2012-01-12 10:15:13 PM
"How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,
This squash, this gentleman."

i253.photobucket.com

CUT! Alright bear, I have to admit you sold the hell out of those lines BUT FOR THE LAST TIME ---- THEY AREN'T YOURS!
 
andrewagill
2012-01-13 12:51:02 AM
Exit, pursued by a trained polar bear cub is even better than the headline promised.
 
nytmare
2012-01-13 01:40:17 AM
socialtimes.com
 
jingks
2012-01-13 02:51:26 AM
So, because a bear collection (for bear baiting mind you) was located near the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare may have used real bears in the play? Well I'm sold.
 
Paris1127 [TotalFark]
2012-01-13 02:52:57 AM
Cry havoc and let slip the bears of war!
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2012-01-13 03:12:05 AM
i25.photobucket.com
 
No Such Agency
2012-01-13 06:35:41 AM
no icon tact:
I played Polixenes, king of Bohemia in a production of 'The Winter's Tale'. AND, I was the bottom half of the bear, top half was female

Giggity.
 
Jamdug! [TotalFark]
2012-01-13 07:55:53 AM
Arkanaut: They'll allow bears, but no women?

Twinks.
 
linuxpyro
2012-01-13 10:19:38 AM
What an actor bear may look like:

home.whatsmykarma.com

/RIP Bart
 
RandomAxe [TotalFark]
2012-01-13 12:41:17 PM
Yes, well, old news, but never too old to be new to some.

In other belated news, the hautboys were often played by actual hautboys, which were played by actual boys.
 
colithian
2012-01-14 10:18:21 PM
That makes sense. Many versions of Shakespeare that we know today were actually bootlegged. Plagiarists would sit in the audience during rehearsals and quickly write down what they saw in shorthand. So maybe a bear got up on stage and chased one of the actors around and we happened to get the bootlegged version.
 
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