“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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Main Author: Wolfgang Mieder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2024-09-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/7619
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