Little Catherine Things: Shakespeare
“Shakespeare…you know, Shakespeare is great. But I would just like to posit my problem with Shakespeare. One of the plays where women have to transform into men - this is the problem I have with the productions of Shakespeare: What they do is, the woman has to pretend to be a man for some reason, so she’ll go offstage, and she’ll come back on stage, wearing a hat, and lo and behold, there’s a new bloke in town! And every character on the stage goes, ‘Aye, aye guv’nor, you’re a man, ain’t ya!’ And then, at the end of the play, when she has to reveal herself, she takes her hat off, and everyone goes, ‘Naaah, we thought you were a man! What with the hat and everything!’”
Don’t forget that she quoted Shakespeare last week on The Office.
Catherine Tate + Shakespeare = OTP