#shake

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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.


Chaim Potok


#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.


William Shakespeare


#brain #humor #macbeth #shakespeare #thinking

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.


Vanessa Redgrave


#lets #people #processes #real #real people

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.


Vanessa Redgrave


#change #coded #codes #heading #i

Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling.


Robert Conquest


#limerick #middle-age #old-age #seven-ages-of-man #william-shakespeare

Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.


Antony Sher


#basic #bear #been #career #doing

As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie. That is my home of love. -Shakespeare, Sonnet 109


Shakespeare


#shakespeare #home

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.


W.H. Auden


#mozart #opera #shakespeare #verdi #wagner

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand years Will Hardly leach,” he thought, “this dust of that fire.


Robinson Jeffers


#age

Jaques: 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, His acts being seven ages.


William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #age