And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still in use today, and old words were employed in ways not tried before. Nouns became verbs and adverbs; adverbs became adjectives. Expressions that could not have grammatically existed before - such as 'breathing one's last' and 'backing a horse', both coined by Shakespeare - were suddenly popping up everywhere.
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... When a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none, Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks.
shakespeare librarian greek
Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!
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If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the world or from books, he may be regarded as a prodigy; if represented as a POET capable of furnishing a proper entertainment to a refined or intelligent audience, we must abate much of this eulogy. In his compositions, we regret that many irregularities, and even absurdities, should so frequently disfigure the animated and passionated scenes intermixed with them; and, at the same time, we perhaps admire the more those beauties on account of their being surrounded by such deformities. A striking peculiarity of sentiment, adapted to a single character, he frequently hits, as it were, by inspiration; but a reasonable propriety of thought he cannot for any time uphold. Nervous and picturesque expressions as well as descriptions abound in him; but it is in vain we look either for purity or simplicity of diction. His total ignorance of all theatrical art and conduct, however material a defect, yet, as it affects the spectator rather than the reader, we can more easily excuse than that want of taste which often prevails in his productions, and which gives way only by intervals to the irradiations of genius. [..] And there may even remain a suspicion that we overrate, if possible, the greatness of his genius; in the same manner as bodies often appear more gigantic on account of their being disproportioned and misshapen.
To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand yearsWill Hardly leach, he thought, this dust of that fire.
But what if Shakespeare? And Hamlet? Were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether be, but to be?
inspirational shakespeare
LEELA: 'To be, or not to be, that is the question.' That is a very stupid question!THE DOCTOR: It's Shakespeare. LEELA: And that is a very stupid name. You do not shake a spear, you throw it! Throwspeare, now that is a name.
funny humor shakespeare doctor-who
Cowards die many times before their deaths, but the valiant never taste of death but once.
shakespeare brave coward
To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.
It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally to popular biography, by which time it will be one of those things about Shakespeare that we thought we knew all along. Right now, though, for those who teach the plays and write about his life, it hasn't been easy abandoning old habits of mind. I know that I am not alone in struggling to come to terms with how profoundly it alters one's sense of how Shakespeare wrote, especially toward the end of his career when he coauthored half of his last ten plays. For intermixed with five that he wrote alone,,,,, and, are (written with Thomas Middleton), (written with George Wilkins), and, the lost, and (all written with John Fletcher).
shakespeare teaching authorship collaboration
Well said, old mole!
shakespeare hamlet
There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.
shakespeare editing exaggeration
What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?
shakespeare solange poetry-life
Wir können uns von Shakespeare unterscheiden, durch Fehler.
- Juliet?- H?u- Unde e?ti?- Nu î?i spun- Dezdemona- Desigur- Vreau s? Te întreb ceva foarte important- Spune- P?i..- Atunci scrie- Cât e ceasul?
shakespeare hollywood
Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of, where virtue is so low-spirited, its exclamation so lachrymose and its justification the nasty realpolitik of Roman Republicanism. The sun has not dried the dew on the grass in, but the ill-lit world of Livy's Rome darkens. The first poem lives out of doors; the second is in a permanent chiaroscuro.
We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters.... To become intimate with Shakespeare in this way is a great enrichment of mind and instruction of conscience. Then, by degrees, as we go on reading this world-teacher, lines of insight and beauty take possession of us, and unconsciously mould our judgments of men and things and of the great issues of life.
..I love Shakespeare, but sometimes.. His images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head..
shakespeare images
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
shakespeare the-fault-in-our-stars william-shakespeare
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
shakespeare sexism
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve, Desire his death, which physic did except. Past cure I am, now reason is past care, And frantic-mad with evermore unrest; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, At random from the truth vainly express'd; For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
shakespeare sonnet
No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.
Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
shakespeare critic
Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.
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