Shakespeare quote

George--

My mother was wont to roar to the Roman Crowd whether the crowd was composed of the neighborhood children or her own offspring.

Were ears lent?

Ears lent? Yes and no. A number of non-neighborhood teens were cited with Shakespearian eloquence, "You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things..."

"O spite, O hell, O double damn" was also a recycled curse that made the local folkways.

"Unknit that threatening, unkind brow" was always a favourite of mine, from Kate in the final scene of The taming of the shrew.

The bard certainly had a way with words...

'Unto thine own self be true' is one of my favourites.

Also Id heard and liked 'The rest is silence'.
I watched Macbeth/Alan Yentob documentary last week and heard it in that.I had no idea it related to death.Made it sound all the more moving.

The rest is silence are Hamlet's final words.

Ironically after being so indecisive all the way through the play he starts to talk with authority as he lies dying, making it seem as though he could have been an effective King after all.

Just thought you might like to know that

Shakespeare was a bloody marvellous writer. I don't think any other scribe even gets near him!

...to feast and batten on this moor

Tino,

How did I know I'd find you here?

...true is it we have seen better days


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This could apply to many current events...

...so shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on the inventors' heads...

George--

The mood I'm in, I'm going with "...a little lower than the angels..."

Ah, you know me too well, Sarah x

I remember being mesmerised by the opening lines of Henry V the first time I heard them:

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention.

I just thought that was stunningly well said

Macbeth:

"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as 't were a careless trifle". - (Act I, Scene IV).

Titus Andronicus

"These words are razors to my wounded heart". - (Act I, Scene I).

I havn't read Titus Andronicus.

I'd rather wait for a production of it to come to Manchester because there's nothing like seeing the play unfold infront of you when you don't know the plot, that's what they were written for, after all, to be staged. Putting them into book form was something that was only instigated by Shakespeare's admirers and friends after he had died.

I saw The Merchant of Venice without having read it first and that was amazing. So fresh:

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions, fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

Interesting to note that the prtrait we all associate with Sheakespeare, may not be him after all!

Titus is on at the RSC (Stratford) at the moment. I have sent you the link Tino. I have been to stratford only once, but it remains one of my favourite days...

http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/default.aspx

Oh, you beauty, Sarah

I agree that Stratford is a gorgeous place. Bet it's even more so in the summer!

Shall we go?

Tino, there was a good 1999 film adaptation of Titus Andronicus (directed by Julie Taymor, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange) that's available on DVD, if you're interested. Of course, nothing can compare to seeing Shakespeare live...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120866/

Yes, if you're serious!

I agree Mac that it's always incomparable live to what you get on the small [or big] screen.

I just don't get the same buzz out of films and the RSC are the nonpariel as far as Shakey's productions are concerned.

I'd rather take up Sarah's offer and maybe watch the dvd later...

Tino,

Just realised the production at the RSC is in Japanese!

Oh bugger...don't think I'm gonna manage to absorb a crash course in Japanese in two weeks!