Mary Ann ShafferI did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.
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The quote, “I did not throw The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed” is attributed to the playwright William Shakespeare. The quote illustrates how Shakespeare felt he had been misunderstood by his peers and critics. The phrase "The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation" is a line from a song in "The Comedy of Errors," a collection of Shakespeare's early work that was published decades after his death.
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