Shakespeare Fan Club

[Resurrexi]

For those of us who think he was the greatest English writer after the author of Beowulf.

[Vincent Vega]

Eh.
He's alright.

[Resurrexi]

He's more than alright! he's amazing!

[SaintOlaf]

Shakespeare? could take him or leave him really.

[Jaime]

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind

[rose wrought of iron]

I like Much Ado About Nothing.

Beatrice totally rocks.

Edited April 21, 2009 by rose wrought of iron

[kafka]

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

[TotusTuusMaria]

yeah, he's alright.

there are some things I like about him. Can't say I am a HUGE fan though.

[dominicansoul]

SONNET 116
[i]Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [/i]

His sonnets just turned 400 years old Sunday......

[hoosieranna]

Romeo, Romeo,
wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or, if thou wilt not,
I'll be no longer a Capulet.

(my personal favorite for randomness): Out danged spot!

[CrossCuT]

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

[MIKolbe]

Et tu, Brute?

[princessgianna]

[quote name='Nadezhda' post='1842376' date='Apr 21 2009, 08:35 AM']Romeo, Romeo,
wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or, if thou wilt not,
I'll be no longer a Capulet.

(my personal favorite for randomness): Out danged spot![/quote]

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[quote name='MIkolbe' post='1842722' date='Apr 21 2009, 03:50 PM']Et tu, Brute?[/quote]




Macbeth is amazing!!!

[Resurrexi]

I like Julius Caesar and the Merchant of Venice.

Edited April 22, 2009 by Resurrexi

[TotusTuusMaria]

[quote name='Resurrexi' post='1843169' date='Apr 21 2009, 10:10 PM']I like Julius Caesar and the Merchant of Venice.[/quote]

yeah i actually like julius caesar as well.

macbeth... not so much.

Edited April 22, 2009 by TotusTuusMaria

[kafka]

Best M of V quote:

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.

[hoosieranna]

I'm on a fence about M of V. Portia is one of my favorite fictional characters, but the resolution of Jessica's "Jewishness" problem is a little too neat. I've always felt kind of bad for Shylock. Yeah, he was a bad guy in the play, but how much of that is due to the anti-Semitic feelings of the time?

edit: His speech makes me tear up.

Favorites are probably The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing.

Edited April 22, 2009 by Nadezhda

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='kafka' post='1843369' date='Apr 22 2009, 01:44 AM']Best M of V quote:

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.[/quote]

I had to memorize that last week

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Nadezhda' post='1843658' date='Apr 22 2009, 05:19 PM']I'm on a fence about M of V. Portia is one of my favorite fictional characters, but the resolution of Jessica's "Jewishness" problem is a little too neat. I've always felt kind of bad for Shylock. Yeah, he was a bad guy in the play, but how much of that is due to the anti-Semitic feelings of the time?

edit: His speech makes me tear up.

Favorites are probably The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing.[/quote]

Shouldn't we be glad that Jessica converted to Catholicism?

[hoosieranna]

I don't know. Should you?

Edited April 22, 2009 by Nadezhda