🎭 Strange bedfellows - Learn English vocabulary & idioms with Shakespeare Speaks

38,016 views ・ 2016-02-12

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It's late in the evening.
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William Shakespeare is visiting his actor friend Robert Harley.
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Will! Just one moment... I have to rescue the cat.
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It likes to sleep with the chickens and it gets locked in the henhouse... come on kitty...
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The cat sleeps with the chickens? That's unusual.
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It's strange, but they seem quite happy together.
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So, Will, I've read your new play The Tempest
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and I'm very excited about all the magic, the music and the monsters,
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and my character, Trinculo, the lost traveller:
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it's a wonderful part. His meeting with Caliban: it's very interesting.
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01:05
Ah, yes, Caliban. Neither man nor fish - a weird sort of creature.
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You put them both in a storm...
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Yes: it's an old trick but it's a good way to bring them together.
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Trinculo needs shelter and the strange, well, almost monstrous Caliban is wearing a gaberdine:
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a large coat, big enough for both of them. Trinculo gets under it, safe and warm from the storm.
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But Trinculo isn't happy...
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He's feeling very miserable. He actually says:
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Alas, the storm is come again!
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Alas, the storm is come again! My best way is to creep under his gaberdine;
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there is no other shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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Ohh, I do like that line: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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When times are hard, people do things they don't normally do...
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We'll leave them there for now.
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Israel, Hamas strange bedfellows when it comes to reining in ISIS in Gaza.
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You think Miley Cyrus and Michael Bublé should write a song together?
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Well, they'd be strange bedfellows... but it might just work.
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Now Will, it's getting late and there's a storm coming. You must stay with us tonight.
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You can sleep in the henhouse - or you can share a bed with the Harley family.
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Hmmm... To bed or not to bed: that is the question.
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