April 2012
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
booklish:
For its latest iPad app, Faber & Faber have teamed up with arts production company Illuminations, and brought in more than 40 actors, poets and academics to read all 154 of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Here’s David Tennant about to undertake Nº 18. The app was built by Touch Press, creators of The Elements.
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“I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,...”
– Comedy of Errors (1.2.35-38)
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Shakespeare's Insult of the Week
“You are not worth the dust that the rude wind blows in your face.”
— King Lear
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“A wretched soul bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;...”
– Comedy of Errors (2.1.34-37)
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“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful...”
– Sonnet 55. (via poorshadowsofelysium)
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“Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!
They dance! they are mad women....”
– Timon of Athens (1.2.131-144)
Apemantus
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“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.”
– Timon of Athens (3.5.3)
First Senator
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“Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;
I pray for no man but myself:
Grant I may...”
– Timon of Athens (1.2.64-71)
Apemantus’ prayer
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“I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will...”
– T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) on Shakespeare, from Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca
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“’T is better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than...”
– Henry VIII (2.3.23-26)
Anne
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Shakespeare's Authorship
A couple days ago, BBC released an article stating that historians may have been able to identify a second author for All’s Well That Ends Well: Thomas Middleton. Middleton was a well-known playwright, though younger than Shakespeare, famous for his play, The Changeling, among others. Although this information is new about All’s Well, this is not the first time a co-author has been...
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“He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and...”
– John Dryden (1631-1700) on Shakespeare, from his Essay of Dramatic Poesy
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All's Well That Ends Well co-written by Thomas... →
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“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.”
– Henry VI, Part II (3.1.53)
Suffolk
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“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath...”
– Henry VI, Part II (3.2.233-236)
Henry VI
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“Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied...”
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1.1.143-149)
Lysander
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Some suggestions for -the-darling-of-fiction
If you enjoy the Histories, I recommend Katherine by Anya Seton, about the love affair between Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt (Henry IV’s father). I’m about to start The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, which follows a Scotland Yard detective as he falls into the world of Richard III. People love writing plays about Hamlet for some reason, like I Hate Hamlet and Fortinbras. The...
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“I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4.1.201)
Bottom
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I just stumbled upon this blog and what an amazing blog it is! I have a question. Do you know of any fictional novels based of Shakespearian plays/characters? I’ve read one titled, “Ophelia” but that’s it. I wondered if you had any to recommend to me. Thanks!
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Thank you!
I can absolutely tell you some of the few novels/plays based on...
emily-pontmercy asked: I just stumbled upon this blog and what an amazing blog it is! I have a question. Do you know of any fictional novels based of Shakespearian plays/characters? I've read one titled, "Ophelia" but that's it. I wondered if you had any to recommend to me. Thanks!
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“Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so...”
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Henry IV, Part II (3.1.27-32)
King Henry IV
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“If then true lovers have been ever cross’d,
It stands as an edict in...”
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1.1.150-155)
Hermia
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