February 2012
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Feb 16th
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TO BE ....
10 takes on Shakespeare’s most famous lines… TO BE…
Feb 4th
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December 2011
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Troilus and Cressida (II,i,110-120)
Ajax:
I shall cut out your tongue.
Thersites:
'Tis no matter, I shall speak as much as thou afterwards.
Patroclus:
No more words, Thersites, peace!
Thersites:
I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I?
Achilles:
There's for you, Patroclus.
Thersites:
I will see you hang'd like clatpoles ere I come any more to
your tents. I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the
faction of fools. [Exit]
Patroclus:
A good riddance.
Dec 25th
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“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the...”
– Isabella Measure for Measure (II,ii,114-123)
Dec 24th
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“Could I find out The woman’s part in me—for there’s no motion That...”
– Posthumus Cymbeline (II,v,19-30)
Dec 23rd
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“Let’s be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. … And, gentle...”
– Brutus Julius Caesar (II,i,166, 171-177)
Dec 22nd
Anonymous asked: I apologize if I sound ignorant, but what are those Roman numerals and numbers you put in parenthesis?
Dec 22nd
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The Merchant of Venice (IV,i,180-187)
Portia:
You stand within his danger, do you not?
Antonio:
Ay, so he says.
Portia:
Do you confess the bond?
Antonio:
I do.
Portia:
Then must the Jew be merciful.
Shylock:
On what compulsion must I? tell me that.
Portia:
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 18th
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November 2011
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Online Shakespeare Course: Shakespeare After All →
heavyheartedlove: Free class lectures via Harvard University
Nov 27th
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“If love be rough with you, be rough with love: Prick love for pricking, and...”
– Mercutio Romeo and Juliet (I, iv)
Nov 12th
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October 2011
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Oct 25th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 10th
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September 2011
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Sep 20th
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August 2011
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Aug 18th
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Aug 15th
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“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the...”
– Isabella Measure for Measure (II,ii,114-123)
Aug 14th
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“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to...”
– Marcus Antonius Julius Caesar (III,ii,74-77)
Aug 13th
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“When you do dance, I wish you A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might...”
– Frorizel The Winter’s Tale (IV,iv,159-161)
Aug 12th
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“Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch...”
– Claudio Much Ado About Nothing II,i,178-180)
Aug 11th
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“Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know.”
– Feste Twelfth Night (II,iii,44-45)
Aug 10th
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Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
quicksummary: Revenge is a dish best served with your loved ones in a pie.
Aug 9th
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Sonnet CXXI
‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteem’d, When not to be receives reproach of being; And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem’d Not by our feeling, but by others’ seeing: For why should others’ false adulterate eyes Give salutation to my sportive blood? Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in their wills count bad what I think good? No, I am that I am,...
Aug 4th
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Aug 4th
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July 2011
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Jul 31st
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Jul 23rd
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“I have seen a medicine That’s able to breathe life into a stone, Quicken...”
– Lafew All’s Well That Ends Well (II,i,72-78)
Jul 23rd
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“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to...”
– King Hamlet (III,iii,101-103)
Jul 12th
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June 2011
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Jun 29th
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“When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth...”
– Calpurnia Julius Caesar (II,ii,30-31)
Jun 21st
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Fact
“Shakespeare” is spelled 80 different ways in documents dating from the Bard’s time, including “Shaxpere” and “Shaxberd.”
Jun 21st
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“If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes. I know thee well enough, thy name...”
– Lear King Lear (IV, vi, 176-180)
Jun 9th
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Personal Mod Post.
Can I just say, my mind was blown yesterday when I realized The Lion King is the story of Hamlet. 
Jun 5th
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“I have profess’d me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving...”
– Iago Othello (I,iii,336-344)
Jun 4th
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“We should be woo’d and were not made to woo.”
– Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream (II,i,242)
Jun 4th
dontcrosscross asked: Hullo! As you might know, there is currently a production of Much Ado About Nothing running over in England starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate as Beatrice and Benedick. Here is a petition asking to film the production like David Tennant's Hamlet was:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/muchadotodvd/

If all followers of this blog would sign it, and perhaps...
Jun 3rd
May 2011
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May 20th
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April 2011
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“O powerful love! that, in some respects, makes a beast a man, in some other, a...”
– Falstaff The Merry Wives of Windsor (V,v,4-6)) 
Apr 19th
March 2011
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Anonymous asked: How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
Mar 31st
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“What’s gone and what’s past help Should be past grief.”
– Paulina The Winter’s Tale (III,ii,223-224)
Mar 31st
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Sonnet LVII
Being your slave, what should I do but tend  Upon the hours and times of your desire?  I have no precious time at all to spend,  Nor services to do, till you require.  Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour  When you have bid your servant once adieu;  Nor dare I question with my jealous thought  Where...
Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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February 2011
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Sonnet CXXX: Valentine's Day edition
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white, then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight That in the break from my poor mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That...
Feb 14th
January 2011
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Jan 30th
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Sonnet CXI
O for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand: Pity me then, and wish I were renewed, Whilst like a willing patient I will drink Potions of...
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th