March 2010
4 posts
“EMILIA O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak’st of I found by...”
– OTHELLO V.II.226-231
Mar 19th
“DESDEMONA Kill me tomorrow; let me live tonight!”
– OTHELLO V.II.80
Mar 19th
“RODERIGO O damned Iago! O Inhuman dog!”
– OTHELLO V.I.62
Mar 19th
“DESDEMONA Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world? EMILIA Why, would...”
– OTHELLO IV.III.63-77
Mar 19th
February 2010
2 posts
Feb 13th
“LAVATCH I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a great fire, and the...”
– ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL IV.5.47-54
Feb 11th
January 2010
5 posts
“TROILUS O beauty, where is thy faith?”
– TROILUS & CRESSIDA V.II.67
Jan 14th
“ACHILLES My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred, And I myself see not...”
– TROILUS & CRESSIDA IV.I.306-307
Jan 14th
“PANDARUS [Sings] Love, love, nothing but love, still love, still more! For,...”
– TROILUS & CRESSIDA 111-118
Jan 14th
“ULYSSES Then everything include itself in power, Power into will, will into...”
– TROILUS & CRESSIDA I.III.119-121
Jan 14th
“TROILUS …Helen must needs be fair, When with your blood you daily paint...”
– TROILUS & CRESSIDA I.I.89-90
Jan 14th
December 2009
13 posts
“OLIVIA …love’s night is noon.”
– TWELFTH NIGHT III.II.147
Dec 30th
“VIOLA A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a...”
– TWELFTH NIGHT II.IV.110-118
Dec 30th
“CLOWN Good madonna, why mourns’t thou? OLIVIA Good fool, for my...”
– TWELFTH NIGHT I.V.62-68
Dec 30th
“OLIVIA Take the fool away. CLOWN Do you hear, fellows? Take away the lady.”
– TWELFTH NIGHT I.V.35-36
Dec 30th
“LAERTES Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.”
– HAMLET V.II.312
Dec 26th
“CLOWN What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or...”
– HAMLET V.I.37-40
Dec 26th
“ROSENCRANTZ …The cess of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth...”
– HAMLET III.III.15-23
Dec 26th
“HAMLET To be, or not to be - that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler...”
– HAMLET III.I.56-88
Dec 26th
“HAMLET Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell”
– HAMLET II.II.523
Dec 26th
“OPHELIA He took me by the wrist and held me hard, Then goes he to the length...”
– HAMLET II.I.86-99
Dec 26th
“POLONIUS Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the...”
– HAMLET I.III.54-80
Dec 25th
“HAMLET Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish...”
– HAMLET I.II.180-181
Dec 25th
“HAMLET Or that the Everlasting has not fixed His canon ‘gainst...”
– HAMLET I.II.131-134
Dec 25th
November 2009
2 posts
On My Way to Hamlet [Ahead of Schedule]
1590 (01) Henry VI, Part I [March] 1590 (02) Henry VI, Part II [April] 1590 (03) Henry VI, Part III [April] 1592 (04) Richard III [May] 1592 (05) The Comedy of Errors [May] 1593 (06) Titus Andronicus [June] 1593 (07) Taming of the Shrew [June] 1594 (08) The Two Gentlemen of Verona [July] 1594 (09) Love’s Labour’s Lost [July] 1591 (10) Romeo and Juliet [August] 1595 (11)...
Nov 4th
“FALSTAFF I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.”
– THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR V.V.117
Nov 4th
October 2009
2 posts
“ROSALIND Alas, what danger will it be to us, Maids as we are, to travel forth...”
– AS YOU LIKE IT I.III.108
Oct 19th
“BENEDICK Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”
– MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING V.II.68
Oct 10th
September 2009
12 posts
Half way Through Shakespeare
I am half way through Shakespeare's canon.
It is unbelievable how much he has taught me.
Microcosmic contrast,
Actions seen through different angles,
The importance of viewpoints,
Utter contradiction,
Humor as buoy,
Extremity in characters,
Inner conflict,
Punning on everything,
Changing meter according to tone,
Practicing multiple modes (humor, drama, tragedy),
Metaphor over simile,
Personification,
Delineating between action and intent,
Action over description,
Personified nouns over adjectives,
Drama,
Carefully placed self-reference,
Using few words to convey large meanings,
Et cetera.
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
“ANTONY Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar,...”
– JULIUS CAESAR III.II.73-107
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
“BRUTUS Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off and...”
– JULIUS CAESAR II.I.162-171
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
“BRUTUS Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse from power....”
– JULIUS CAESAR II.I.18-27
Sep 29th
Sep 29th
“My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally...”
– Wittgenstein, Tractus Logico-Philisophicus 6.54
Sep 29th
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Sep 20th
“KING How yet resolves the governor of the town? This is the latest parle we...”
– HENRY V III.3.1-43
Sep 16th
“FALSTAFF God save thy grace, King Hal, my royal Hal! PISTOL The Heavens thee...”
– HENRY IV Pt. II V.5.41-71
Sep 9th
August 2009
5 posts
“The rejection of Falstaff by Henry V may be the most painful moment in...”
– Introduction to HENRY IV pt. II
Aug 26th
Aug 25th
Aug 25th
“PRINCE Do not think so. You shall not find it so. And God forgive them that so...”
– HENRY IV Pt. I III.II.129-160
Aug 25th
“ARTHUR Ah, none but in this iron age would do it! The iron of itself, though...”
– KING JOHN IV.I.60-85
Aug 4th
July 2009
5 posts
“HERMIA [Awakes] Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best To pluck this crawling...”
– A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM II.II.145-156
Jul 21st
“HELENA The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will. The story...”
– A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM II.I.229-237
Jul 21st
“QUEEN What, is my Richard both in shape and mind Transformed and weakened?...”
– RICHARD II V.I.26-34
Jul 12th
“YORK To do that office of thine own good will Which tired majesty did make...”
– RICHARD II IV.I.177-193
Jul 10th
“WELSH CAPTAIN ‘Tis thought the king is dead. We will not stay. The bay...”
– RICHARD II II.IV.7-17
Jul 9th