Your Favourite Shakespeare Quote.

[nahan]

Taming of the shrew rules !

PETRUCHIO
Verona, for a while I take my leave,
To see my friends in Padua, but of all
My best beloved and approved friend,
Hortensio; and I trow this is his house.
Here, sirrah Grumio; knock, I say.

GRUMIO
Knock, sir! whom should I knock? is there man has
rebused your worship?

PETRUCHIO
Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.

GRUMIO
Knock you here, sir! why, sir, what am I, sir, that
I should knock you here, sir?

PETRUCHIO
Villain, I say, knock me at this gate
And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate.

GRUMIO
My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock
you first,
And then I know after who comes by the worst.

PETRUCHIO
Will it not be?
Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it;
I'll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.

He wrings him by the ears

GRUMIO
Help, masters, help! my master is mad.

PETRUCHIO
Now, knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!

[tianup]

ah, yes:


I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this, killing myself,
to die upon a kiss.


Othello

[chalice]

Thanks guys.... keep it up.

I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth,
foregone all custom of exercises, and, indeed,
it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth,
seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,
look you, this brave o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof,
fretted with golden fire...why it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent
congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man,
how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form
and moving how express and admirable;
in action how like and angel,
in apprehension how like a god;
the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals...
And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Hamlet (on a good day).

[kooky_kramer]

what do you people (those who have posted and are shakespear fans) think about it being included as a major part of senior schooling (in australia anyway) ?? I mean if you dont understand shakespear, you fail school.

[chalice]

Kooky, personally I think it's a good thing.
Shakespeare is also on the curriculum in the UK but not to the intensity he once was.
Shakespeare provides us with a deeper understanding of our own language.
Not only that but he gives us scintillating glimpses of what it is to be human.
He gives us an appreciation of art and culture while remaining profoundly moral and truthful.
To know and love Shakespeare is to know and love life.
I can't blame school for inflicting that on me.

"We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms,
which the wise powers deny us for our own good".

Anthony and Cleopatra. act ii, scene 1

[MagicNakor]

Originally posted by kooky_kramer@3 June 2003 - 12:01
what do you people (those who have posted and are shakespear fans) think about it being included as a major part of senior schooling (in australia anyway) ?? I mean if you dont understand shakespear, you fail school.

Shakespeare.

I think the education system is flawed; people who cannot comprehend basic reading or put together a coherent sentence are graduating. They shouldn't.

And yes, they should teach Shakespeare.

[kooky_kramer]

is shakespeare part of the school curriculum in other countries ??

[MagicNakor]

I believe it's part of the English program for any English-speaking country. Perhaps even any European country; there were quite a few people from other countries saying they did Shakespeare in school.

Note: When I say English-speaking, I mean a country that has English as its offical language.

[NotoriousBIC]

It's part of the English program here in the Netherlands too. (anyway, 7 years ago)


"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war" - from 'Julius Ceasar'

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" - from 'Taming of the Shrew'

[Oregonian]

I have one:

Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Julius Ceaser