The Royal Mail did this and they couldn’t have chosen a less appropriate Shakespeare play
Probably seemed like a good idea at the time for the Royal Mail to decorate its postboxes with Shakespeare quotes to mark William Shakespeare’s birthday.
It’s Shakespeare’s birthday today, so to mark the occasion we’ve decorated a postbox! Lead actors from ‘Romeo & Juliet’ are here next to the postbox, which features quotes from some of Shakespeare’s most famous work #Shakespearesbirthday #postbox cc @TheRSC pic.twitter.com/IocmUutc4V
— Royal Mail (@RoyalMail) April 23, 2018
And it IS a good idea if you like this sort of thing. Just don’t use quotes from Romeo and Juliet because, well, have you read Romeo and Juliet?
These people have.
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um…
R&J is probably *not* the play you want to go with if you’re advertising a service that _delivers_ letters. https://t.co/NUxRCbeeLs
— claire m. l. bourne (@roaringgirle) April 23, 2018
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Did anybody there actually read the play? The entire point of the last two acts is that the letter is too late. The whole tragedy is a bloody advertisement for texting.
— Jeanthejust (@Jeanthejust) April 23, 2018
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Maybe Shakespeare wrote R&J primarily as a cautionary tale about substandard mail delivery. Authorial intent is so notoriously hard to determine.
— Eric Johnson (@OSShakespeare) April 23, 2018
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I think there’s a way to do this: “What else are you going to do, have a random friar deliver your letter?”
— Kevin Gates (@ProfKevinGates) April 23, 2018
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Absolutely quoting this in class. Might even make a poster.
— Allie Pruett (@alliepruett) April 24, 2018
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Or maybe the point is R&J didn’t use Royal Mail & look where they ended up 😧
— Spokes(wo)man (@Spokes_wo_man) April 24, 2018
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Prithee doth not leaveth mine own parcels outside, lest I receiveth not. Thanketh thee.
— WanksyWarhol (@uniquedvdsleeve) April 23, 2018
Return to sender.