Shakespeare Forever

David Tennant as Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost (2008)

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Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry ‘Content!’ to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.
I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
I’ll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
I’ll play the orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could,
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I’ll pluck it down.

Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part III (3.2.198-211)

Gloucester

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An interview with David Morrissey on Macbeth (2011)

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David Morrissey as Macbeth (Liverpool Everyman Playhouse production 2011)

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Tom Hiddleston in Cymbeline (2007)

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Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Our bending author hath pursued the story,
In little room confining mighty men,
Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
Small time, but in that small most greatly lived
This star of England. Fortune made his sword,
By which the world’s best garden he achieved,
And of it made his son imperial lord.

Shakespeare’s Henry V (Epilogue)

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I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay upon thy lips.

Antony and Cleopatra (4.15.23-26)

Mark Antony

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A Souvenir Disc marking the Coronation of King George VI in 1937 features John Gielgud reciting a monologue from Shakespeare’s Richard II and Elgar’s arrangement of the National Anthem.

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Michael Caine as Horatio and Christopher Plummer as Hamlet in Hamlet (1964)

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Shakespeare Forever

I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips.

I am dying, Egypt, dying; only
I here importune death awhile, until
Of many thousand kisses the poor last
I lay upon thy lips.