The bard enters Hip lore once again with this reference to King Lear's youngest daughter Cordelia. In Shakespeare's "King Lear," the young royal bucks tradition and refuses to feed her fathers ego with compliments in exchange for a portion of England to call her own. The oft told tale of treachery, traitorous relatives and way too many words ending with "th" follows. In the end, well I don't wanna spoil it for you, but lets just say that Bill sure wasn't a fan of the happy ending.

Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" is said to be cursed. When it was first performed in front of Witch-aficionado King James, it contained a reenactment of an occult ceremony to please the King. This offended the witching community, and a group of activist witches (I checked, and at this point: the witches union was not a part of the CAW) placed a curse on the play. Anyone involved with the production who said the word "Macbeth" while not reciting a line from dialogue was doomed to seven years of bad luck or a few weeks of bad gas or some other terrible calamity... there are literally dozens of interpretations regarding the curse and it's effects. To avoid the curse, players had to refer to their project as "The Scottish Play."

The only way to break the curse, and this seems more like an invitation than a deterrent, was to step outside the theatre, spin around in circles, and scream obscenities. And you thought the 17th century was boring