What does Johnson's phrase about Shakespeare's "Fatal Cleopatra" refer to ?
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Lexicographer Samuel Johnson said that “a quibble was to Shakespeare his fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to do so.” In his A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Johnson describes a punster as a “low wit who endeavours at reputation by double meaning.” Samuel Coleridge, on the other .
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Lexicographer Samuel Johnson said that “a quibble was to Shakespeare his fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to do so.” In his A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Johnson describes a punster as a “low wit who endeavours at reputation by double meaning.” Samuel Coleridge, on the other ...
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