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Post by Dellarigg on May 29, 2021 7:52:50 GMT -5
A place for all the wise and witty Shakespeare lines you may happen across, or be carrying around in your head. As obscure or familiar as you like. Give us the play/sonnet/poem though.
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Post by Dellarigg on May 29, 2021 7:54:44 GMT -5
Thus have I shunned the fire for fear of burning,
And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd.
- The Two Gentlemen Of Verona
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 29, 2021 12:25:45 GMT -5
Well, I'll go with another memorable line from one of Shakespeare's lesser plays
We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood?
-1 Henry VI
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Post by Dellarigg on May 30, 2021 12:39:07 GMT -5
I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear
Such gallant chiding. For, besides the groves,
The skies, the fountains, every region near
Seemed all one mutual cry. I never heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 1, 2021 11:12:48 GMT -5
Opening this out to include artwork. Here's Macbeth by John Martin from 1820.  |
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Post by songstarliner on Jun 1, 2021 20:03:21 GMT -5
Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1851-1852  Ophelia, John Williams Waterhouse, 1894 
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 2, 2021 3:22:44 GMT -5
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 2, 2021 3:26:27 GMT -5
Titania and Bottom, Henry Fuseli
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 2, 2021 19:49:26 GMT -5
Orson Welles as Macbeth (1948)  |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 3, 2021 13:58:49 GMT -5
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,
And blown with restless violence round about
The pendent world; or to be worse than worst
Of those that lawless and incertain thought
Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.
- Measure For Measure
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jun 3, 2021 15:42:30 GMT -5
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 4, 2021 12:05:26 GMT -5
Brando as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (1953)  |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 5, 2021 7:19:06 GMT -5
Come, madam wife, sit by my side,
And let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
- The Taming of the Shrew
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 8, 2021 5:11:52 GMT -5
There's nothing in this world can make me joy:
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
- King John
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 10, 2021 9:46:20 GMT -5
Miranda - The Tempest, John Williams Waterhouse
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 11, 2021 6:55:19 GMT -5
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
- The Merchant of Venice
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 16, 2021 7:43:23 GMT -5
Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus and the Ghost, Robert Thew
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 18, 2021 12:11:33 GMT -5
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
- Antony and Cleopatra
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 19, 2021 8:14:50 GMT -5
Richard Burton in Hamlet (1964)  |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 19, 2021 12:46:05 GMT -5
Helen Mirren as Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, 1965  |
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Post by songstarliner on Jun 20, 2021 3:07:18 GMT -5
Sometimes we see a cloud that’s dragonish,
A vapor sometime like a bear or lion,
A towered citadel, a pendant rock,
A forkèd mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon ’t that nod unto the world
And mock our eyes with air.
- Antony and Cleopatra
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 22, 2021 11:41:07 GMT -5
I'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing's a thief.
- Timon of Athens
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 27, 2021 5:21:47 GMT -5
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
- Twelfth Night
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 27, 2021 5:40:31 GMT -5
Lady Macbeth - Gustave Moreau. (Brian De Palma used this as inspiration for the bloody, fiery rampage in Carrie.) 
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 28, 2021 6:33:21 GMT -5
Paul Robeson in Othello, Broadway 1943-44.  |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 30, 2021 16:00:43 GMT -5
Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks:
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.
- King Lear
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 1, 2021 2:53:16 GMT -5
Antony Sher in the RSC's Richard III from 1984 - playing to the 'bottled spider' description.    |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 3, 2021 15:17:23 GMT -5
Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon;
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
All with weary task fordone.
Now the wasted brands do glow,
Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,
Puts the wretch that lies in woe
In remembrance of a shroud.
Now it is the time of night,
That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the churchway paths to glide:
And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate's team,
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic; not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house:
I am sent with broom before
To sweep the dust behind the door.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jul 3, 2021 18:53:12 GMT -5
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
If you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
-- A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Post by Dellarigg on Jul 4, 2021 10:17:59 GMT -5
John Gielgud's Hamlet, possibly from 1929.  |
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