- All’s Well That Ends Well by Exxon
- “When oil and fire, too strong for reason’s force, O’erbears it and burns on.”
- King Lear by Philip Morris
- “‘Tis hot, it smokes.”
- Henry IV by the NRA
- “So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.”
- As You Like It by Koch Industries
- “Of what kind should this cock come of?”
- Henry V by Chick Fil A
- “Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch’d”
Tag: Shakespeare
Golden Age of Advertising
Shakespeare could write a jingle for Eggos that would really make you think. I think he was best known for his slogan for “Murphy’s Bloodletting.” How many monkeys, and how many years, do you think would be needed to come up with that? Thank god, just like Barry Manilow, he graduated to write his own Copacabana…The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
