The very best of William Shakespeare

[George Hannah]

I stand corrected. :(

" 'Tis better than to lie uncorrected.."

 

[Iantaff]

Can only speak for my own experience.
But not many schools in Manchester did
Willie Shakespeare.to be honest.never mind trying to understand the fker.

Lots of schools in Manchester did Shakespear, I’d be tempted to say the ones that didn’t were the exception.

 

[Iantaff]

Thought it might be fun to ask fellow Mooners what their favourite Shakespeare play and quote are. My favourite play is Macbeth. Very difficult to choose a quote as there are so many good ones that are still as relevant today as when they were written:

• "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."
  'Act 2, Scene 7 As you like it

• "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
  Act 5, Scene 1 A you like it

• "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Act 5 Scene 5 Macbeth

‘The Tempest’
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”

 

[KS55]

For god's sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of Kings...

Said Phil Brown.

 

[Saddleworth2]

“Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.”

Romeo and Juliet

 

[Saddleworth2]

I bite my thumb at you lot.

"Did you bite your thumb at us sir?"

Get to the Brexit thread if you want to start a fight :-)

 

[Saddleworth2]

The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,
Stop up th' access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry "Hold, hold"

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

For those that find Shakespeare a little boring, I recommend this Baz Luhrmann adaption of Romeo and Juliet. Magical with a top notch cast.

Seen it and it's awful.

For me, I just got unlucky with Shakespeare and think it was just too much for us youngsters at school. Bard luck, I guess.

When having to study his text and decipher it all, it's like one long cryptic crossword, and when you consider he (or they) were writing during a period of huge illiteracy and just making words up (he couldn't even spell his own name consistently), I just don't get the constant requirement to deem him the epitome of English story writing.

 

[Kennedy_probably_has]

“Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.”

Romeo and Juliet

Bit of a spoiler though isn’t it to put it right at the start of the book. Makes reading it a bit of a waste of time

 

[Saddleworth2]

Seen it and it's awful.

For me, I just got unlucky with Shakespeare and think it was just too much for us youngsters at school. Bard luck, I guess.

When having to study his text and decipher it all, it's like one long cryptic crossword, and when you consider he (or they) were writing during a period of huge illiteracy and just making words up (he couldn't even spell his own name consistently), I just don't get the constant requirement to deem him the epitome of English story writing.

Its not for everyone but the fact that so many of his phrases still exist in everyday english indicates he was pretty special. We got it force fed at school but once I got into it I genuinely enjoyed it and still read some of his plays once in a while just to remind me.