#shakespeare

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

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #poetry #shakespeare #love

Here's one of the problems with communicating in the words of a man who is not around to explain himself: it's damn hard sometimes to tell what he was talking about. Look, the sheer fact that people have banged out book after article after dramatic interpretation of this guy should tell you that despite his eloquence, he wasn't the clearest of communicators. ↗

— Eleanor Brown

#shakespeare #communication

Macbeth:"'If we should fail?" Lady Macbeth: "We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #courage

Life... is a paradise to what we know of death. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#philosophy #shakespeare #death

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— Prashna Bari

#funny #link #shakespeare #triforce #zelda

To be, or not to be: what a question! ↗