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bluehue said:
Interesting question..so I looked it up. For more detail, just google "Shakespearean references on House MD"
...here are two blurbs for you to go on...
"TB or Not TB" is a plain-as-day reference to Shakespear's "Hamlet" (the actual line is from dialogue in which Hamlet contemplates suicide, but decides that the "dread of something after death" is unknown and not worth the risk, and he'd rather "suffer the slings and arrows" of the living life). Credit: Phil Thompson, article in b5media, a House Guest Post.
*Dear angelfire:
You may already know this, but just in case, I should have clarified a few details:
1. From Shakespeare's play - Hamlet "To be or not to be," etc...
2. From House MD - "TB or Not TB" is a "play on those words, on House though, "TB" is short for tuberculosis, a disease of the lung.
Also..from epi 20/1st Season - "Love Hurts."
"Macbeth": House says Harvey's problem is an infection from a needle the acupuncturist "let sit in eye of newt," a reference to the potion made by three witches in William Shakespeare's play MacBeth.
This sounds tasty....
The actual recipe of the potion (from MacBeth) is:
In the poison'd entrails throw.-- Toad, that under cold stone, Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got. ... Fillet of a fenny snake, ... Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,-- ... Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangl'd babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,-- Add thereto a tiger's chaudron. ... Cool it with a babboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good.
Credit: The TV IV
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