Timeline for What does "Happy man be his dole" mean in The Taming of the Shrew?
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| Jan 9 at 12:28 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ |
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| Dec 31, 2023 at 10:20 | comment | added | verbose | To whoever edited this question to reformat the lines as blank verse: The lines are prose. They are not verse. | |
| Dec 31, 2023 at 10:19 | history | edited | verbose | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Roll back previous edit. The lines are prose.
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| S Dec 31, 2023 at 7:42 | history | suggested | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Line breaks inserted in accordance with the orginial blank verse.
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| Dec 29, 2023 at 19:48 | comment | added | DanO | Since dole means a hand-out or apportionment or literally the cards you are dealt (doled out). The speaker is just emphasizing that Sweet Bianca is a prize, the man that gets dealt the Bianca card is in a position to be a Happy (lucky) Man, and with the next sentence "let the best man win." So modern colloquial: Let's do this! We'll work together and one of us might get be dealt the Bianca card which is a sweet set-up for a happy life. The @verbose answer below is really good too, but this is the jist of it. | |
| Dec 28, 2023 at 23:27 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 28, 2023 at 22:49 | answer | added | verbose | timeline score: 16 | |
| Dec 28, 2023 at 21:43 | history | edited | verbose | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Lengthened quote. Added link to original. Edited question header.
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| Dec 28, 2023 at 17:21 | history | edited | verbose |
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| Dec 28, 2023 at 17:10 | answer | added | schweppz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 28, 2023 at 17:08 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Obviously it means 'He will be a lucky man who wins Bianca', but I'm not sure why Shakespeare didn't write Happiness be his dole. | |
| Dec 28, 2023 at 14:10 | history | edited | Skooba - Stands Against AI | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Dec 28, 2023 at 14:04 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Dec 28, 2023 at 14:04 | history | asked | pygmalian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |