Happy Shakespeare Day, flist! In honour of this day that marks both the birth and the death of the great Bard of Avon everyone should post their favourite snippet of Shakespeare. I'll go first
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I have approximately EIGHT MILLION favorite Shakespeare quotes, but here's one:
"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again."
I hear you on the eight million favourites! I have a similar number but the Queen Mab speech is always the one the springs to mind first.
That's a lovely snippet. The Tempest is a play that I really need to see again. The production I saw was, at best, disappointing and it put me off the play a little. I think I need to see it again and see it done well so I can appreciate it properly.
my favourite bit of hamlet is in act ii, scene ii: "what a piece of work is a man". i don't know how much i'm influenced by withnail, though. :)
i don't know if i could pick a favourite quote overall. when i was at school it used to be this one from othello act v scene ii, which is both moving and utterly chilling:
Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench! Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl! Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave! Whip me, ye devils, From the possession of this heavenly sight! Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur! Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!
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"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again."
--Caliban, The Tempest
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That's a lovely snippet. The Tempest is a play that I really need to see again. The production I saw was, at best, disappointing and it put me off the play a little. I think I need to see it again and see it done well so I can appreciate it properly.
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my favourite bit of hamlet is in act ii, scene ii: "what a piece of work is a man". i don't know how much i'm influenced by withnail, though. :)
i don't know if i could pick a favourite quote overall. when i was at school it used to be this one from othello act v scene ii, which is both moving and utterly chilling:
Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench!
Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!
Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave!
Whip me, ye devils,
From the possession of this heavenly sight!
Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!
Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!
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