BS: Shakespear's birthday

Subject: Shakespear's birthday
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 01:58 PM

Favourite Mudcatters' Shakespearian quotations?

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: MMario
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 02:02 PM

I've always liked it when Willy just stands there dumbfounded because someone has one-upped him.

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: GUEST,Karen
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 02:12 PM

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,"
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time..."

Why? Because some days are just like that!

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 02:26 PM

Karen, in high school my drama teacher had us memorise that quote for our finals.....

This has to be one of my favourites.....

Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

Malvolio
Twelfth night......

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 02:27 PM

"What relish is in this?"

Kinda' sums up how I look at everything.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 02:28 PM

First of all scholars haven't yet found out which day Shakespeare was actually born on. Second, England was on the Julian calendar until 1752. You can get a lot of Shakespeare's birthdays if you like. The Folger Shakespeare Library's Birthday bash was yesterday (see metro section in today's Washingtton Post). I went to it once, and was greatly disappointed. All PR types and entertainers and audience; the librarians and the readers (those actually knew something about Shakespeare) didn't come.

Hey the doxie over the dell!

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 02:29 PM

By far, my fave:

OSWALD:What dost thou know me for?
KENT : A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats;
a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.

King Lear, act 2, scene 2

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Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: GUEST,Karen
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 02:34 PM

Well, if the shoe fits.... ;-) Have you seen the Shakespearean insult site?
http://www.edgewood.net/www/demo/JavaScript/sik-js.html

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 02:55 PM

Oh that is hilarious! I especially love this one!

O thou infectious, flap-mouthed codpiece.

Might even start using it...

O, Spaw, thou infectious, flap-mouthed codpiece.*BG*

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 03:05 PM

Thank you 'Gin me lad......What an honor!

Spaw - Flap mouthed Codpiece

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: UB Ed
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 03:10 PM

Good Link Karen!

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Wavestar
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 03:23 PM

Oh, must we, right now? *wavestaruptoherneckinKingLear*

Let's see...

...I am sent with broom before To sweep the dust behind the door...

If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here, Whilst these shadows did appear. -MSND

or: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, And are melted into air, into thin air And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yes, all which it inheirit shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are mad on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

-Tempest

or something more dramatic:

Then you must speak Of one that not not wisely but too well.

-Othello

Words to live by- I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad - and to travel for it, too.

-AYLI

Okay, I'll stop. You did ask.

Though she's as like to this as a crab's like an apple, yet I can tell what I can tell... She will taste as like this as a crab does to a crab. -King Lear

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 03:28 PM

How about Shakespeare-out-of-Context?

Lady Macbeth puts the dog out for the night: "Out, damn Spot!"

Quebec police, arresting a female demonstrator: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

Hamlet, addressing a conference on air pollution: "The air, look you ... why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours."

and so forth....

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Justa Picker
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 03:28 PM

Have we not heard the chimes at midnight?
(...also quoted by "General Chang" [Christopher Plummer], in "Star Trek - The Undiscovered Country"...)

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 04:24 PM

'Do not as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven. Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, and recks not his own rede.'

Hamlet

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: GUEST,alanabit
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 05:04 PM

I can't give you verse and chapter, but I know it's from early on in "As You Like It". It comes just before Jacques fatuous "seven ages of man" speech, with it's bullshit psuedo philosophy. The Duke says something like, "Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy This wild and universal theatre brings forth more woeful pageants Than the scene wherein we play in" Please correct me - some real Shakespearean scholar.

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 05:10 PM

Act 2 Scene 7.

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.

Good memory, alanabit!

From this Shakespeare site: http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: The Walrus
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 05:39 PM

Appropriate Shakespeare quotes? With the weather we seem to have had for (what seems like) the last six months:

Hey Ho the wind and the rain,
The rain it raineth every day

And for me on the (seemingly never ending) diet:-

Would that this too too solid flesh would melt....

Good Luck.

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: harpmolly
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 05:49 PM

I think mine would have to be,

"She was a vixen when she went to school,
And though she be but little, she is fierce."

and:

"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!"

Amergin can tell you why *grin*

P.S. My birthday is the day after Shakespeare's! (allegedly...). Woohoo! (Well, okay, one day and 411 years, if you want to be TECHNICAL about it.) :)

M

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 05:59 PM

ROFL!!!! I sure could....

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: harpmolly
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 06:17 PM

Of course, I haven't got to play Hermia yet. Though I did play Puck. And that was definitely fun. :D

M

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: sophocleese
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 06:22 PM

"You common cry of curs, Whose breath I hae as reek o' the rotten fens, Whose loves I prize as the dead carcases of unburied men, I banish you, there is a world elsewhere."

Something like that, got me through some tough spots.

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 06:23 PM

And let us never forget,

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

(Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3 Scene 2)

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 06:26 PM

This all reminds me of the wonderful story told by C.S. Lewis about the English Bishop, who was treated to a performance of Midsummer Night's Dream by an all-girls school. Said he to the headmistress, in front of the whole school, "And what a delight it was to see my first female Bottom!"

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Snuffy
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 07:12 PM

As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 2

What shall he have, that killed the deer?
His leather skin, and horns to wear.
   Then sing him home.
Take thou no scorn, to wear the horn;
It was a crest ere thou wast born.
   Thy father's father wore it,
   And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn,
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Matt_R
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 09:52 PM

O flesh! O flesh! How art thou fishified!!
--Romeo & Juliet

My offense is rank and stinks to Heaven.
--Hamlet

Thou liest, thou scurvy patch!
--The Tempest

I smell all of horse-piss.
--The Tempest

But pourquoi, my good knight?
--Twelfth Night

If I had only spent more time studying, and less time playing at bull-baiting...
--Twelfth Night

What trade, thou naughty knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade?
--Julius Caesar

Turn me not round, my stomach is not constant.
--The Tempest

O monstrous! O strange! Fly masters, fly!
--Midsummer Night's Dream

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Apr 01 - 10:59 PM

Yeah, Alex, that brings to mind the first female bottom I had ever seen....I was about five....and it was my cousin's.....

What can I say we're a very close knit family....

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 02:45 AM

Stage Direction: "Exit, pursued by a bear"

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Ringer
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 04:22 AM

Cleopatra's maid to the Queen: The bright day is done and we are for the dark. Those 11 monosyllables raise the hairs on the back of my neck.

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Fiolar
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 09:28 AM

Not a quote. Apparently if certain elements in South Africa have their way, many of Shakespeare's plays will no longer be allowed in schools in which case the bit from Antony and Cleopatra may be relevant."The bright day is done, we are for the dark."

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 09:37 AM

A snapper up of unconsidered trifles
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Wavestar
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 03:49 PM

Woops. That should have been, "of one that loved not wisely but too well."

Crazy Eddie - I also love "Applies an asp." Those two are my favourite stage directions of all time.

"And masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass." -Much Ado About Nothing

-J

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 05:55 PM

Not many people know this, but Shakespeare wrote a play about eggs - it was callled Omelette !

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Amergin
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 05:58 PM

Boy, ID, that is even older than the cobwebs in my shower....

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Hawker
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 07:48 PM

Our local vicar recently had an operation to deal with his piles (hemmerhoids or however it is speeellt)The weekly church newsletter following his return to duties started with the following quotation from a Midsummer night's dream:............"Oh! Bottom! How thou art changed"
It mad me smile anyway!
Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: kendall
Date: 24 Apr 01 - 10:02 PM

And enterprises of great pith and moment become sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, and, lose the name of action. I also like; The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one, yet the light of the whole world dies with the setting sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, the heart but one
Yet, the light of a whole life dies when its love is done.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad,ugly and venemous ,

wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
This is our life, exempt from public haunt
We find tongues in trees, books in running brooks
And sermons in stone and good in everything
I would not change it.

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Chip2447
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 12:20 AM

As well known as it is I really like the whole "Alas, poor Yoric. I knew him Horatio..." Thing from Piglet...

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Ringer
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 08:34 AM

The bee's to't; the small gilded fly doth lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive!

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: LR Mole
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 08:57 AM

"For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings."

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Louisa
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 09:34 AM

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

from Macbeth

A rose by any other name smells as sweet

(from the Wherefore art thou Romeo? speech. Incidentally it is a source of great annoyance, almost as much as pan pipe buskers, when people think wherefore means where. It means why.)

All of the pastoral bit (after exit, pursued by a bear) of the Winter's Tale.

Anyone seen any good Shakespeare lately? Went to see the new RSC Hamlet at Stratford a few weeks ago and it was brilliant.

Louisa

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: Wavestar
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 09:42 AM

Nothing live, recently, Louisa, but I run a small amatuer theatre company in the summer, and we do Shakepeare. I've recently been subjecting myself repeatedly to Peter Brook's King Lear, and Akira Kurosawa's _Ran_, which is a Japanese adaptation of King Lear, and simply the most brilliant film I've seen in a long time. If you haven't seen it, and you know King Lear, (or even if you don't), see it.

Subject: RE: BS: Shakespear's birthday
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 25 Apr 01 - 09:58 AM

This above all
to thine own self be true
and it must follow as the night, the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man

(Polonius in Hamlet)

and

"Oh brave new world, that hath such people in it"

(Miranda in The Tempest)