December 2011
41 posts
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“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all...”
– The Tempest, Act IV scene i
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November 2011
34 posts
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“A course more promising
Than a wild dedication of yourselves
To unpathed...”
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The Winter’s Tale - Act IV scene iv
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Shakespeare's Insult of the Week
“He has not so much brain as ear wax.”
Troilus and Cressida
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“When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do...”
– The Winter’s Tale, Act IV scene iv
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“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is
his own glass, his own trumpet, his...”
– Troilus and Cressida - Act II scene iii
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Shakespeare's Best Thanksgiving Lines
Still finding yourself stumped for an elegant grace to say at your family’s Thanksgiving dinner celebration? Why not borrow from the Bard? Shakespeare was never at a loss for words of gratitude!
“I can no other answer make but thanks, And thanks, and ever thanks.” Twelfth Night
“Only I have left to say, More is thy due than more than all can pay.” Macbeth
“My life itself, and the...
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Top 10 Shakespeare Misquotes
1. From “The Life and Death of King John”
Misquote: “Gild the lily” Actual Quote: “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily”.
This is one of those odd misquotes in which the meaning remains essentially the same – though, clearly, Shakespeare’s actual quote is stronger due to the doubling up of the point.
2. From: “Macbeth”
Misquote: “Lead on, Macduff” Actual Quote: “Lay on, Macduff, and damned...
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death...”
– Julius Caesar, Act II, scene ii
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Shakespeare's Insult of the Week
“She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.”
— All’s Well That Ends Well
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“All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability...”
– Troilus and Cressida Act III, scene ii
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Shakespeare's Metaphors and Similes
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, Volume I. New York: Ginn and Co.
Since Homer, no poet has come near Shakespeare in originality, freshness, opulence, and boldness of imagery. It is this that forms, in a large part, the surpassing beauty of his poetry; it is in this that much of his finest idealizing centres. And he abounds in all the figures of speech known in formal rhetoric,...
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Portraits of Human Virtue: A Look at the...
From Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Ed. Henry Norman Hudson. Boston: Ginn & Co.
As You Like It is exceedingly rich and varied in character. The several persons stand out round and clear in themselves, yet their distinctive traits in a remarkable degree sink quietly into the feelings without reporting themselves in the understanding; for which cause the clumsy methods of criticism are...
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The Shakespeare Sisterhood: Beatrice
by Henrietta Palmer for Shakespeare Online
Beatrice, like many another woman before and since, is the slave of a pert tongue; her intellect, though quick, is not strong enough to keep her vanity in subjection, and the consciousness of possessing in a ready wit the power of discomfiting others, proves a successful snare for her good taste and all the graceful effects of her gentle breeding. It is...
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“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and...”
– Twelfth Night, Act II scene v
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“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel not what we ought...”
– The last lines of King Lear, Act V scene iii
Edmund
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“Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little...”
– Romeo and Juliet (via libraryland)
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“She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i’ th’ bud,
Feed on...”
– Twelfth Night, Act II, scene iv
Viola
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“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he today that sheds his blood...”
– Henry V
Happy Veteran’s Day
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“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us...”
– Macbeth, Act I scene iii
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“I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances;
But not for joy; not joy. This...”
– The Winter’s Tale, Act I, Scene ii
Leontes
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Shakespeare's Insult of the Week
There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.
-Henry IV, Part I
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111 Followers!
That seems lucky to me, for some reason. Thank you all! :)
SONNET 111
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...
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109 Followers! Thank you so much!
SONNET 109
O, never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify. As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie: That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged, So that myself bring water for my stain. Never believe, though in my nature...
