Your Favourite Shakespeare Quote.

[squishyboboball]

Lemme get my copy of Othello out, Emelia has one of the best little rants towards the end.

"But I do think it is their husbands' faults
If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,
And pour our treasures into foreign laps,
Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,
Or scant our former having in despite;
Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,
Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know
Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,
As husbands have. What is it that they do
When they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is: and doth affection breed it?
I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?
It is so too: and have not we affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so."

And Feminism wouldn't come into being until the 1960's. Hows that for forward thinking?

[MagicNakor]

Feminism has been around way before the 1960s. The woman's movement was called that when women petitioned for the right to vote, but the sentiment had been around for ages. And the United States tends to be behind on granting social freedoms to people.

[Riddler]

"But, soft. What light through yonder window breaks ? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

The coolest thing; I managed to remember that line in Verona, under Juliet's balcony ( so they claim ) while my new bride looked on with great delight. B)

[Oregonian]

Originally posted by Riddler@18 June 2003 - 04:04
"But, soft. What light through yonder window breaks ? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

What does these lines means ?

[OcramC]

oh dont, im doing shakespeare at the moment

[Rat Faced]

"Is this a Dagger I see before me; the handle towards my hand?"


I agree with Skweeky.

Hated it at school, and put me off it for life.

One day, maybe i'll try reading it again or watching it on TV...but since then, and now; I avoid it like the plague

[J'Pol]

I am typing this from memory, thirty years ago, so apologies for any errors.

Now is the winter of our discontent
made glorious summer by this son of York
and all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

The opening soliloquy from Richard III

As I recall Richard walked out of a room in one of the Henry plays, when the war was over. He walks into another room and starts dick 3 with this soliloquy. In effect it is a sequel. He is unhappy that the war is over as he is an ugly hunchbacked bar steward and normal life doesn't suit him as it is all about singing and dancing and fun. As it transpires this was almost certainly historical nonsense.

Bear in mind that these were plays. They were never intended to be read, they were intended to be watched. So reading them is the equivalent of reading a screenplay.

To teach children Shakespeare they should be shown the play, even if only on film. Get the experience as the bard intended it.

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by Oregonian+20 June 2003 - 21:10--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Oregonian @ 20 June 2003 - 21:10)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Riddler@18 June 2003 - 04:04
"But, soft. What light through yonder window breaks ? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

What does these lines means ? [/b][/quote]
"Hey, what&#39;s that light I see in that window? Ah, the window is the East, and Juliet is the sun&#33;"

It&#39;s a rather lovely bit of imagery.

[The Flying Cow]

Cry 'Havok', and let loose the dogs of war! (Julius Caesar)

[iLOVENZB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOECEEmnl-U