Art for Art’s sake

(Activity from the study guide of the Sue Mongredien adaptation)

during reading

Art for Art’s sake 

When ...  has no more gold or jewels covering ..., the Art Professor at the University says that ‘... is not beautiful so ... is not useful’. 
Do you agree? Give your opinion.

THE ART PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY AND SHAKESPEARE?

We already know that the Art Professor at the University, only known for his profession/office and his equation of the not beautiful with the not useful, is a secondary character, nay, a bit character created by Oscar Wilde for satirizing the ivory tower intelligentsia's/academia's aesthetic views, as well as a fantasy counterpart inspired by Wilde's mentor Walter Pater.
So where does the Bard of Avon fit in?
 gli sterili commenti [···] del professore d’arte [···], che già Wilde aveva modellato sui dialoghi clowneschi dei cortigiani di Shakespeare.18  
(Here, Annotation 18 is inserted)

I read this excerpt by Luca Federico and went... well, short of words. 
Federico explains below, in Annotation 18: 
18 Pensiamo, per esempio, alle battute di Osric nella seconda scena del quinto atto di Hamlet. 

What is interesting is Osric's pompous and artificial mannerisms, which the Bard satirizes in a similar way. The adjective "flowery" is used in study guides left and right to describe Osric's style of conversation.
Just have a look here in this link: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/page_312.html

¿POR QUÉ EL POLLO CRUZÓ LA CARRETERA?

¿POR QUÉ EL POLLO CRUZÓ LA CARRETERA?

"¿A quién le importa?"
Alaska y Dinarama

"Cruzar o no cruzar, he aquí la cuestión".
Hamlet

"Lo que carece de belleza es inútil, según afirmo".
El profesor de Estética de la Universidad

"Era históricamente inevitable".
Karl Marx

"Hallo René! Hier bin ich!"
Teniente Hubert Grüber

"Nosotros somos pollos, y la vida es la carretera que hemos de cruzar sin que nos atropellen".
Yago... ¿o era Tyrion Lannister?

"Eshcánshiame otra, Lanshel... eshta de tinto dornienshe... ¿qué posho y qué cafetera? Que me sheven a la cama, que no puedo másh..."
Cersei Lannister

"Se había buscado su propia muerte, por débil e irreflexivo".
Tywin Lannister

"RAAAARGH!"
El león de la Metro

"Mud. Kip. Mud. Kip. Mud. Kip".
Un mudkip cualquiera elegido como pokémon de inicio

"Hodor. Hodor hodor hodor hodor. Hodor hodor. Hodor".
Hodor

"Yo soy Groot. Groot. Soy Groot".
Groot.

"ldai30piangpnmñai".
BB-8

"Porque había visto gamusinos al otro lado".
Luna Lovegood

"¿Que por qué el pollo cruzó la carretera? Hay división de opiniones y todas difieren entre ellas. Yo misma aún estoy pensando en la mía".
Sandra Dermark