General Chat

Don't you love it when they carry on regardless - went to an open air performance of Carmina Burana a few years ago (I'm an opera fan), half way through it started to hiss down, the singers carried on regardless, despite the fact that there was no canopy over the stage.
They announced that as long as the the audience were willing to get soaking wet, so were they and by the end we were all, both singers and audience, like drowned rats!

Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say,
'This is no flattery.'

As you like it ~ my fav bit of this excellent play ~ twas 15 years ago I saw this in an open air production at Dudley Castle when it got to the bit "the penalty of Adam" the stage collapsed but the actor continued

Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say,
'This is no flattery.'

As you like it ~ my fav bit of this excellent play ~ twas 15 years ago I saw this in an open air production at Dudley Castle when it got to the bit "the penalty of Adam" the stage collapsed but the actor continued

yes such a tradegy !!!!!

For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Act V, scene III

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Romeo and Juliet

Agree with you.
Eagerly awaiting his progeny's return!

Have a lovely day,

Julia

Mornin Joy yes Kenneth Brannagh always comes to my mind too

yes Julia language is beautiful ~ amazin too I love how one of his most famous quote is re-cycled shall we say I also loved what his progeny wrote earlier Shakespeare was a man with a sense of humour so I eagerly await more of the same !!!!

He's brilliant!

St Crispin's Day. I can always hear Kenneth Branagh saying that.

Language can be such a beautiful tool.


Annagram -

To be or not to be: that is the question; whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...

Becomes -

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.


Julia

mornin Julia didnt he have a special way with words ~ all so beautiful

Good Morning, Mel

Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards.

A Midsummer Nights Dream
Act III, scene II

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!". Quote (Act V, Scene IV).

"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told". Quote (Act IV, Scene IV).

"Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe". Quote (Act V, Scene III).

Richard III

Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me
All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more;
Let's mock the midnight bell.

Antony, Act III, scene XIII

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Can imagine, it's a very stirring speech!

Hello Julia,

Yes it is, my dad's favourite from when he was at school!

Love it Clare, is it from Henry V?