Shakespeare

[Trav Le Bleu]

Everyone likes a bit of Shakey! I've been watching the Hollow Crown series on BBC which has so far been excellent and reminded me how brilliant he is.

We go around quoting his plays all the time, sometimes not even realising it, as good luck would have it!

Even if Shakespeare is all Greek to you, it's high time there was a Shakespeare thread. What are your favourite bits?

I'm not at all patriotic, but this is very rousing... from Richard II.

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,

This earth of Majesty, this seat of Mars,

This other Eden, demi-paradise;

This fortress built by Nature for herself,

Against infection and the hand of war,

This happy breed of men, this little world,

This precious stone set in the silver sea,

Which serves it in the office of a wall,

Or as a moat defensive to a house,

Against the envy of less happier lands;

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,

This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,

Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth.

or one of the great villains of all time... Lady Macbeth

I have given suck, and know

How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:

I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,

And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn

As you have done to this.

or a sonnet? No. 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

[21st Century Fox]

http://www.doubtaboutwill.org/declaration

[pSinatra]

'Oh, how full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife' - Macbeth

[Rincewind]

What a tangled webbo we weave.

[Charl91]

Really not a big Shakespeare fan, though I feel like I should be. 'Hamlet' isn't bad, neither is 'Macbeth', though neither are particularly light reading, and some of his stuff stuff like 'The Tempest' is pretty dull. I also reserve a special hatred for his sonnets.

[21st Century Fox]

What a tangled webbo we weave.

Sir Walter Scott

[Rincewind]

So it was.

OK

When shall we three meet again?

The next home game?

[MikeyT]

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed"

[Leicester_Numan]

Loving the series so far. My favourite is Henry V. I wish someone would do a modern language action film of it rather than yet another film of the play. Cracking story and our best away win against the French

[Rincewind]

Is that 'Once more unto the breach' ?

Just found it.

King Henry:

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;

Or close the wall up with our English dead.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility;

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger. . . .

Think that basically in peace time by all means put your feet up and live an idylic life but if you are in the middle of a battle feild cause as much bloodshed as you can.

[21st Century Fox]

Loving the series so far. My favourite is Henry V. I wish someone would do a modern language action film of it rather than yet another film of the play. Cracking story and our best away win against the French

Something like this?

[Leicester_Numan]

Is that 'Once more unto the breach' ?

Just found it.

King Henry:

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;

Or close the wall up with our English dead.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility;

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger. . . .

Think that basically in peace time by all means put your feet up and live an idylic life but if you are in the middle of a battle feild cause as much bloodshed as you can.

That's at the battle of Harfleur, just before Agincourt. The famous Agincourt one is the St Crispin's day speech

[Trav Le Bleu]

Really not a big Shakespeare fan, though I feel like I should be. 'Hamlet' isn't bad, neither is 'Macbeth', though neither are particularly light reading, and some of his stuff stuff like 'The Tempest' is pretty dull. I also reserve a special hatred for his sonnets.

Mayhap, thus I doth present unto thee...