August 2012
204 posts
6 tags
“For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.”
– Hamlet (2.2.622-623)
Hamlet
July 2012
196 posts
3 tags
Shakespearean Pickup Lines
thegeekyblonde:
9 tags
“Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not ‘seems’.
‘Tis not alone...”
– Hamlet (1.2.77-87)
Hamlet
5 tags
7 tags
8 tags
Watchcassius614:
Iago’s motivations and jealousies, grounded in his Act I Scene I introduction, yield many moments to be mined in the rest of the play. In this episode, I posit that Iago’s motivations revealed therein are distressingly understandable for a modern audience.
10 tags
“Give you a reason on compulsion!
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,...”
– Falstaff, Henry IV, Part I (2.4.226-228)
5 tags
7 tags
9 tags
“An if the devil come and roar for them,
I will not send them: I will after...”
– Henry IV Part 1 (1.3.127-130)
Hotspur, declaring he will not give up his prisoners to King Henry IV
5 tags
Shakespeare's Insult of the Week
“Old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon your face.”
— Henry V
10 tags
9 tags
“And often did beguile her of her tears,
When I did speak of some distressful...”
– Othello (1.3.174-187)
Othello speaking of Desdemona
5 tags
shakespeareishq:
“This day is called the feast...
3 tags
5 tags
4 tags
9 tags
Sonnet Sunday
But do thy worst to steal thyself away, For term of life thou art assured mine, And life no longer than thy love will stay, For it depends upon that love of thine. Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, When in the least of them my life hath end. I see a better state to me belongs Than that which on thy humour doth depend; Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind, Since that my life on...
6 tags
6 tags
7 tags
7 tags
6 tags
8 tags
Face our furry fury
apinchofsanity:
5 tags
“Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs that give...”
– The Tempest (3.2.148-156)
Caliban
10 tags
5 tags
“Modest doubt is call’d
The beacon of the wise.”
– Troilus and Cressida (2.2.15)
Hector
7 tags
6 tags
12 tags
Shakespeare's Insult of the Week (Surprise!!)
“Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe.”
— Henry IV, Part 2
8 tags
9 tags
“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus expiring do foretell of him: ...”
– John of Gaunt’s monologue ‘This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle’ in Richard II (2.1.32-69)
9 tags
8 tags
Some choice (Shakespearean) selections from the...
The Winter’s Ale - tix include a concession voucher for a complimentary seasonal beer (or Canada Dry)
KING LEA: Lea Michele’s journey to become King of the Universe.
Shakespeare’s Ohello, an evil soldier has it in for his superior but is always surprised to see him.
Tom Stoppard’s existential classic about a Danish paternity suit: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dad.
...
5 tags
5 tags
“Truth hath a quiet breast.”
– Richard II (1.3.97)
Thomas Mowbray
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
6 tags
3 tags
sueisme:
I know you all, and will awhile uphold...
8 tags
“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap
To pluck bright honour from the...”
– Henry IV, Part 1 (1.3.206-211)
Harry Hotspur
8 tags
7 tags
3 tags
9 tags
“O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts;
Possess them not with...”
– Shakespeare’s Henry V (4.1.343-358)
King Henry V’s prayer before the battle of Agincourt
8 tags
4 tags
7 tags
“There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it...”
– Shakespeare’s Henry V (4.1.59) 