shakepere...wtf

Buford T. Justice XIX

How sharper than a serpents tooth is it to have a thankless poster.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

...a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man..

Always my favourite and quoted often.

mad muffin

You haven't heard Shakespeare until you've heard it in the original Klingon.

"taH pagh, taH be?"

splinter65

Hence, you dicentious rogues, who in scratching the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselfs scabs

Coriolanus LC 1982

RobbingBandit

You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.

Allinall

This thread should be closed.

It's much ado about nothing.

RobbingBandit

darkdubh wrote: »

What Shakespeare character would Trump be?

King Lear he seems to have quite a few smart fools in his ear.

Hotblack Desiato

the beer revolu wrote: »

Hang on, I did Romeo and Juliette for the inter in 85. Macbeth for LC in 87.
Are you sure you did your inter in 85?

Merchant of Venice was 86. We started off doing Richard II though which was hell.
Hamlet for LC in 88.
"Lady, may I lie in your lap?"

Oldtree

"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble."
Prick,
I'm sorry for your trouble.

jamesbere

CRY HAVOC and let slip the dogs of war

branie2

Macbeth doth murder lemons

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Duckworth_Luas

darkdubh wrote: »

What Shakespeare character would Trump be?

Bottom, from A Midsummer's Night's Dream.

RobertKK

I did Romeo and Juliet for the Inter cert, the lesson there was patience would have paid off there in the end.
Then King Lear for the Leaving Cert, the lesson there was some people tell you what you want to hear, and the people who really love you will tell you the truth.

I think he told great stories which are still relevant

mikhail

I've never read Shakespeare for fun, but I do appreciate it, and I've seen maybe ten of them performed. It's some of the oldest stuff in English that's remotely legible to a non-specialist. The stories are timeless, the wordplay clever, and the meter gives well-acted versions of it a unique sound.

Has anyone seen the Canadian tv show Slings and Arrows? Or Ben Elton's Upstart Crow, which is on netflix? Funny shows, both, especially if you've at least a passing familiarity with the more popular plays.

Avatar MIA

"Though it be but a little knife, it is fierce."

Avatar MIA

"Thy lemon is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce."

mojesius

'I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.'

Capt'n Midnight

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Well seeing as you can't spell his name correctly.

Neither could he.

His surviving signatures are
Willm Shakp
William Shaksper
Wm Shakspe
William Shakspere
Willm Shakspere
By me William Shakspeare

Dante

And with that, a mighty cheer went up from the heroes of Shelbyville. They had banished the awful lemon tree forever, because it was haunted,

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Always liked this one from A Midsummer Night's Dream:

"And are you grown so high in his esteem because I am so dwarfish and so low? How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak; how low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach unto thine eyes."

In other words "I'll scratch your f*cking eyes out you lanky bitch"

Human nature doesn't really change, does it?

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RobertKK wrote: »

I did Romeo and Juliet for the Inter cert, the lesson there was patience would have paid off there in the end.
Then King Lear for the Leaving Cert, the lesson there was some people tell you what you want to hear, and the people who really love you will tell you the truth.

I think he told great stories which are still relevant

Considering how old it is, Hamlet is a fairly staggering depiction of depression. The man just had an unbelievable level of insight and an eye for the human condition as well as all his fancy wordin stuff and that.

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You'd think Shakespeare would have kept a standard spelling of his own name though. It is suggested he wasn't a lone author of the works (or not even the author full stop).

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I have read so many of his plays but I know I am missing out by not seeing them performed in in the flesh.

Lorelli!

"If music be the food of love, play on"

twill

shuvly wrote: »

Just cut a lemon for a wee drink and knife went to finger...was expecting a gusher...nothing...then my head launched into "if you prick me do I not bleed"....and the whole shylock thing came into my head that I had done for merchant of venice for inter cert in 1985....thats how usefull learning all that ****e was...any learning for ye lot?

That's because

This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed one drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate unto the state of Venice.

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Capt'n Midnight

He done some great movie scripts in fairness

From the SciFi classic Forbidden Planet, and the samurai adventures Throne of Blood and Ran.

somefeen

The devil can ****e scripture for his porpoise