If you know As You Like It you might recognize the origins of Jacques’, “All the world’s a stage” and Touchstone’s line: “The fool doth think his is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” The second quote actually comes from Socrates, but I like to think Shakespeare read it first at school, performing the following colloquy IN LATIN when he was about twelve. But it was all secondhand knowledge, acquired from books, museums, paintings. Even some of their customs and colloquialisms were familiar. Akutakpahamdengan bahasa sehari-hari modern Amerika. I am unversed in modern American colloquialisms. It is one of many of Erasmus’ colloquies featuring smart, sassy women. colloquy: percakapan pidato mengandung percakapan Contoh. Much gratitude to the lovely Susan Angelo and my kid brother John Lithgow for this delightful cold reading of “Abattis et eruditae” at a salon I did recently at the home of my friend Susan Cambique Tracey. Hello!? Erasmus’ women were doing that long before Shakespeare!
The history of the Colloquy of Poissy, September October 1561, was one of great hope, then failure, followed by the unprecedented destruction of civil war. Something else that amazed me were all of the whip-smart women characters that Erasmus created! Shakespeare is often noted for his luminous and opinionated women, often outsmarting and out-talking the men around them. On the eve of the French Wars of Religion (1562 1598), a conference between Calvinist and Catholic theologians, aimed at religious reconciliation, took place outside Paris. I wondered why hardly anyone had ever seemed to notice. Characters, circumstances, even specific images and lines show up all over his early comedies. To me it is glaringly obvious that, as a boy, Will Shakespeare performed them at school. Colloquist noun A speaker in a colloquy or. These were short scripts written forty years before Shakespeare was born, for schoolboys, to teach conversational Latin! Just about every Latin grammar school in England had copies of the texts and scheduled the Colloquia in their statutes. Colloquialize transitive verb To make colloquial and familiar as, to colloquialize ones style of writing. When I started reading, I was astonished to find early models of the colloquial characters that I loved as a kid watching Shakespeare’s plays: the clowns, shopkeepers, thieves, schoolmasters, bar flies, prostitutes, etc. I found a mention of them in a terrific biography of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate, Soul of the Age, and found a dusty old copy on line. colloquy the act of conversing a conversation. It was the discovery of the Colloquia Familiaria written by Erasmus that got me started on my book ten years ago. colloquial (redirected from colloquialness) Also found in: Thesaurus. John Lithgow and Susan Angelo read Erasmus’ Colloquy, “Abattis et Eruditae”