Best Of MetaFilter

pursued by a Hartz?

chavenet's post on I Understand Thee, and Can Speak Thy Tongue: California Unlocks Shakespeare’s Gibberish, is not only a cool theory about the mystery language in "All’s Well That Ends Well," it also sets the stage (the STAGE, get it?) for the official winner of this week's Best Dad Joke Pun Using Third Person Plural Present Tense Latin in 16th Century Stage Instruction. Congratulations, Ishbadiddle!

167th St. Station. James Baldwin Mural. New York, NY. by KTDrasky (cc by)

to bear witness, as long as breath is in him: "Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare," by James Baldwin

romeo and juliet by sammydavisdog (cc by)

Nice discussion in eotvos's post on the (un?)balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, with an especially interesting comment from ricochet biscuit on one Thomas Coryate, "probably the most influential person on your daily life that you have never heard of but who is still known by name" — and a man who would almost certainly understand the dread perils of modern day Twitter (et al).

Verstegan has posted about the shock discovery of what appears to be John Milton's personal annotated copy of Shakespeare's First Folio

Hamilton hand-netting for macro-plankton from Aurora / by Frank Hurley by State Library of New South Wales collection

We've wrapped up FirstPost September! A big thank you to julen for organizing and to all the posters who took part.

Great stuff to give a second look under these tags:

FirstPost (from building a medieval LEGO village, to visiting the last audio cassette factory, to this farewell from the bad boy of Canadian dance)

FirstTimeLongTime (did you see the fake Shakespeare play? You can visit Horace Rumpole to see it in person!)

SecondPost (such as Strunk and White, Grammar Police), and even ThirdPost (how about a bot that makes villanelles from tweets).