https://nosweatshakespeare.com <strong><a href="/">Modern Shakespeare</a></strong> resources, <strong><a href="/sonnets/">sonnet translations</a></strong> & lots more! Fri, 11 Mar 2022 01:20:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/neither-a-borrower-nor-a-lender-be/comment-page-1/#comment-2977243 Fri, 11 Mar 2022 01:20:27 +0000 https://nosweatshakespeare.com/?page_id=1031155#comment-2977243 What about Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo says to the Apothecary, a 16th century drug dealer, “here. I will pay thy poverty”…this a scene that has money is the root of all evil” implications just like “nor borrower be”, as the modern day drug dealer most likely took the job bc of borrowing too much money and knows “never to take a check” lol or to never front drugs in lieu of money… I don’t see how you missed a major money connection of despondency Shakespeare commonly uses in his plays.

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