Favorite Shakespeare

[Persephone]

This is my favorite sonnet. I have many favorite lines from plays. More on that later...


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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-- William Shakespeare

[lucy]

Suth.

My favorite sonnet as well. Thanks for the poetry!

Keep writing.

The Queen Mab speech from Romeo and Juliet is one of my favourites, but then again I am a faerey freak. I'd post it, but my Riverside is not handy at the moment.

[Persephone]

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasties that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This, I think, is my favorite play.

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasties that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This, I think, is my favorite play.


Very good play, it has faeries in it!

Shall I compare thee to a Summers Day,
Thou art more lovey and temperate,
rough winds do shake the darling buds of May...



Iambic pentameter
w/ cuplet

[Persephone]

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasties that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This, I think, is my favorite play.


Very good play, it has faeries in it!



I usually tell my students the point of that play is that love makes jackasses of us all. When they tell this back to me on their tests, they always say it means "love conquers all."

They think I'm kidding.

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasties that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.”

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This, I think, is my favorite play.


Very good play, it has faeries in it!



I usually tell my students the point of that play is that love makes jackasses of us all. When they tell this back to me on their tests, they always say it means "love conquers all."

They think I'm kidding.


They're young yet, give them time.

[kathleen]

I have many, but these are some of my favorites:

This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother;

King Henry V

and

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Hamlet

[lucy]

Of the tragedies, definitely KING LEAR.

[truelies]

Which ever play had the line about killing all of the lawyers.

[Slipped Mickey]

Which ever play had the line about killing all of the lawyers.


Ahh truelies, we share the same appreciation for Shakespeare.

I've never read ONE word of Shakespeare. Never liked the "style."

[Slipped Mickey]

I've never read ONE word of Shakespeare. Never liked the "style."


Me either. I'm like truelies. I read what I had to and forgot all I could possibly could. It's painful reading IMHO. I prefer Elmore Leonard and I think he is much better with dialogue than Bill Shakespeare.

[Persephone]

I've never read ONE word of Shakespeare. Never liked the "style."



You mean except for the poem that I posted at the top of this thread, right? :-*

[BrandonL]

Which ever play had the line about killing all of the lawyers.


"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." (henry VI, Pt. II, Act IV, Sc. 2)

[lucy]

Isn't it funny--almost 400 years ago and already lawyers were earning a bad name for themselves....

[Julia]

Much Ado About Nothing

A few favorite quotes:
Messenger: And a good soldier too, lady.
Beatrice: And a good soldier to a lady. But what is he to a lord?
Messenger: A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all honorable virtues.
Beatrice: It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man. But for the stuffing-well, we are all mortal.
Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
Beatrice: Is it possible Disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to Disdain if you come in her presence.
Leonato: By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
Antonio: In faith, she's too curst.
Beatrice: Too curst is more than curst. I shall lessen God's sending that way, for it is said, "God sends a curst cow short horns"; but to a cow too curst he sends none.
Leonato: So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.
Beatrice: Just, if he send me no husband; for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face. I had rather lie in the woolen!
Benedick: I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.
Conrade: You are an ass, you are an ass!
Dogberry: Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me down an ass! But masters, remember that I am an ass: though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
Benedick: A miracle! Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity.
Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, & partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption.
Benedick: Peace! I will stop your mouth.
hearing guitar music
Benedick: Is it not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

[Satan]

If you wish to study a granfalloon,
Just remove the skin of a toy balloon. ~ Bokonon

I'll be damned. I heard James Taylor tack the words "ohhh, Bokonon, Bokonon" into a song at a concert one time, and I always wondered what the hell it meant.

Learn something new every day. :)

[Persephone]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by and idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

--MacBeth, V:5

[Julia]

If you wish to study a granfalloon,
Just remove the skin of a toy balloon. ~ Bokonon

I'll be damned. I heard James Taylor tack the words "ohhh, Bokonon, Bokonon" into a song at a concert one time, and I always wondered what the hell it meant.

Learn something new every day. :)


Sky,

The quote I have in my signature is actually from Kurt Vonnegut. It is from a book called, Cat's Cradle.

Bokonon is the banished spiritual leader of an outlawed religion in a fictional Latin American country called San Lorenzo. It is a really good book, and a quick read.

(I'm a little late discovering Vonnegut, but so far, I really like him.)