Your Favourite Shakespeare

FredSnerd (Claude) · #1 28-11-2009, 08:37 PM

What’s your favourite Shakespeare. Doesn't have to be a play. Can be a poem etc. Mine is Macbeth. As an aside someone once told me they didn’t like Hamlet because it was full of clichés

PCH (Paul) · #2 28-11-2009, 08:55 PM

Without a moment's hesitation, Henry V ...

"Once more unto the breach etc ..."

A more rousing and motivating speech would be hard to imagine.

JimmyH155 · #3 28-11-2009, 09:36 PM

beauty is truth and truth beauty. This is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know.
Magic

His 14th sonnet, I believe

Enchilada · #4 28-11-2009, 10:53 PM

There is no other favourite of Shakespeare than "The Taming of the Shrew". There are far to many to quote, but one is a stunner;

PETRUCHIO. Come on, a God's name; once more toward our father's.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
KATHERINA. The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.
PETRUCHIO. I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
KATHERINA. I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
PETRUCHIO. Now by my mother's son, and that's myself,
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,
Or ere I journey to your father's house.
Go on and fetch our horses back again.
Evermore cross'd and cross'd; nothing but cross'd!
HORTENSIO. Say as he says, or we shall never go.
KATHERINA. Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please;
And if you please to call it a rush-candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
PETRUCHIO. I say it is the moon.
KATHERINA. I know it is the moon.
PETRUCHIO. Nay, then you lie; it is the blessed sun.
KATHERINA. Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun;
But sun it is not, when you say it is not;
And the moon changes even as your mind.
What you will have it nam'd, even that it is,
And so it shall be so for Katherine.

Enchilada · #5 28-11-2009, 10:57 PM

or… when Vincentio, a Merchant of Pisa, says'

"What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty
As those two eyes become that heavenly face?"

A magnificent pick-up line!!

Peter Ward · #6 28-11-2009, 11:04 PM

Humm a toughie....but given my distain for our legal system I rather always liked Henry VI....

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". - (Act IV, Scene II).

dugnsuz (Doug) · #7 28-11-2009, 11:12 PM

Probably the "Ugly Stick"

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #8 28-11-2009, 11:17 PM

Macbeth.

Did I mention I have a 12 volume, 1885 set of Shakespeare's works

Dave

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #9 28-11-2009, 11:29 PM

Forbidden Planet....

Darth Wader (Wade) · #10 28-11-2009, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by dugnsuz

Probably the "Ugly Stick"

My favourites are The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night.

Enchilada · #11 29-11-2009, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Omaroo

Forbidden Planet....

Exactly. This is certainly based on Shakespeare and brilliant in its insight… especially of the power of the id.
Sci-fi it might be, but is all but a shadow of Shakespeare's insight…

Pity most reject Shakespeare as basically "old hat"…

Good one!!!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #12 29-11-2009, 12:28 AM

Othello

FredSnerd (Claude) · #13 29-11-2009, 05:39 AM

My Favourite bit from Macbeth

Macbeth
Thou losest labour .....
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one of woman born.

Macduff
Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb
Untimely ripp'd.

Macbeth
Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.
................................... .....
Hey Enchilada,

“But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!’

Now that’s a pick up line!
................................... ........
“Monsters John, Monsters from the Id”
Forbidden Planet

FredSnerd (Claude) · #14 29-11-2009, 05:43 AM

Very interesting, It's always the men who like Taming of the Shrew (in your dreams)

FredSnerd (Claude) · #15 29-11-2009, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by dpastern

Macbeth.

Did I mention I have a 12 volume, 1885 set of Shakespeare's works

Dave

Wow Dave. How did you come by this?

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #16 29-11-2009, 07:10 AM

EBay my friend. Got it pretty cheap as well. Only in average condition though (binding is tearing in ILFC [inner left front cover], sorry book collectible speak lol), with foxing too. Still, happy to have it in my collection.

Dave

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #17 29-11-2009, 10:26 AM

We have an itsy bitsy mini edition of Macbeth, bought at Cawdor Castle.

There've been having tourists visit the Castle ever since the play was published.
To quote the 5th Earl of Cawdor: "I wish the Bard had never written his damned play!"
But he did and I'm glad I've had the chance to see the Castle.
http://www.cawdorcastle.com/index.cfm

On the same trip I visited all the sights I could in relation to the TV series "All Creatures Great and Small". I must say I had a ball.

FredSnerd (Claude) · #18 29-11-2009, 11:43 AM

Hey Jeanette, I didnt know that castle existed. Thats definately on my to do list if I ever make it to scotland again

Jen · #19 29-11-2009, 11:56 AM

Shakespheare
I wouldnt know any if it was sitting in front of me

sjastro · #20 29-11-2009, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jen

Shakespheare
I wouldnt know any if it was sitting in front of me

You're not in lone company.

Also there has always been doubt whether William Shakespeare was a real person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakesp...rship_question

Steven