is somebody a very special boy?

[kerrypolka]

GUESS WHOSE BIRTHDAY IT IS TODAY (PROBABLY)!

I think quoting fiestas are always the best way to commemorate brilliance -- but instead of running over Sonnet 29 and "Man delights not me", I'd like an Obscure Shakespeare Quotation Party. What turns of phrase in "Two Gentlemen of Verona" make you bite your fist? What's your favorite monologue from "

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[lareinenoire]

Poetry IS sexy. So is that Faulconbridge speech. I must see King John sometime.

1 Henry VI

LUCY
O, were mine eye-balls into bullets turn'd,
That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!

Because it's silly and I love it. Plus, the opportunity for Doctor Who crossovers featuring Lucy as a robot with eye sockets that shoot bullets is almost too much to resist.

2 Henry VI

SUFFOLK
Blut-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour!
If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much,
Thy mother took into her blameful bed
Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock
Was graft with crab-tree slip, whose fruit thou art,
And never of the Nevils' noble race.

WARWICKBut that the guilt of murder bucklers thee

[educate_sedate]

Othello

[cisic]

I think the coolest line in all of Shakespeare is from Richard II.

Further I say and further will maintain

Upon his bad life to make all this good,

That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester’s death,

Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,

And consequently, like a traitor coward,

Sluic’d out his innocent soul through streams of blood:

Which blood, like sacrificing Abel’s, cries,

Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,

To me for justice and rough chastisement;

And, by the glorious worth of my descent,

This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.

-- Richard II (Act I, scene i)

[angevin2]

I just want to say YAY for Richard II! :D

Because I am that big a dork.

[cisic]

One month until I see it live for the first time!

[melissa_mifeng]

(Learned it in Senior English, 14 yrs ago. Still love it

[a_t_rain]

More Titus:

DEMETRIUS
Villain, what hast thou done?

AARON
That which thou canst not undo.

CHIRON
Thou hast undone our mother.

AARON
Villain, I have done thy mother.

And my favorite unsung hero in Shakespeare, the First Servant from Lear:

First Servant
Hold your hand, my lord:
I have served you ever since I was a child;
But better service have I never done you
Than now to bid you hold.

REGAN
How now, you dog!

First Servant
If you did wear a beard upon your chin,
I'd shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?

CORNWALL
My villain!

They draw and fight

First Servant
Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.

REGAN
Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus!

Takes a sword, and runs at him behind

First Servant
O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left
To see some mischief on him. O!

Dies

[cisic]

I do love that Titus exchange!

Similarly, in Love's Labour's Lost:

King. But, sirrah, what say you to this?
Cost. Sir, I confess the wench.
King. Did you hear the proclamation?
Cost. I do confess much of the hearing it, but little of the marking of it.
King. It was proclaimed a year’s imprisonment to be taken with a wench.
Cost. I was taken with none, sir: I was taken with a damosel.
King. Well, it was proclaimed ‘damosel.’
Cost. This was no damosel neither, sir: she was a ‘virgin.’
King. It is so varied too; for it was proclaimed ‘virgin.’
Cost. If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid.
King. This maid will not serve your turn, sir.
Cost. This maid will serve my turn, sir.