Affable Wolves
It’s a quote from a wildly weird play, sort of an afterthought in Shakespeare’s collected works, which to me, just makes it more interesting.
Current scholarship suggests that it is one play in two parts, and the primary author was probably Shakespeare, but his heir apparent — in respects to the acting company — probably helped.
It also wasn’t really a part of the original “Complete Works” but as an afterthought, more for filler?
Who knows, for sure. Scant evidence to support anything.
It is not frequently performed, but given current political conditions? One should take another look.
Affable Wolves
Sorry for the Wikipedia link, but that was the quickest summation and synopsis of reasonable material in a short space.
- Live loath’d, and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time’s flies,
Cap-and-knee slaves, vapors, and minute-jacks!
Act 3, scene 6, lines 51-5
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