Love is merely a madness, and I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. I loved this quote. As You Like It is probably most famous for its "Seven Ages ...
That was fun, but I'm still no fan of Will's comedies. Still, this was one of the better of the comedies I have read so far (I am not a fan of A Midsummer Night's Dream) and there are elements that I really loved in this: For one, there are ideas in this play that seem to re-appear in later play...
I started my Henry IV journey last weekend, and have spent all week thinking about the plays, or rather play as in my mind the two parts need to be combined to give the full story. I'll continue referring to both parts as the combined "play". After first reading the play, and after watching the fi...
LEONTES Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? Stopping the career Of laughter with a sigh?—a note infallible Of breaking honesty. Horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? Wishing clocks more swift, Hours minutes, noon midnight? And all ...
I just finished The Merchant of Venice, but will need to ponder on it for a bit before jotting down my thoughts. It's certainly been a departure from Shakespeare's earlier plays, even if Wells, Taylor, et al. state that this play was nothing but the "natural progression of his earlier comedies". ...
LOUIS THE DAUPHIN There's nothing in this world can make me joy. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoiled the sweet world's taste, That it yields naught but shame and bitterness. Wow. A play dating from 1595 (or 1596) about Eng...
LUCIANA: How? Hast thou lost thy breath? DROMIO OF SYRACUSE: By running fast. Madcap fun. Bonkers, tho, and I can certainly sympathise with the writers of Upstart Crow (Ben Elton & David Mitchell) who used The Comedy of Errors as recurring topic to poke fun at Shakespeare's writing comedy in that ...
What an odd play. From the introduction contained in the Oxford edition (Wells, Taylor, et. al.) of the Complete Works I gather that this play was a more recent addition to the Works and that only Scenes 2, 3, 12, and perhaps 13 may have been written by the Bard, with the rest having other author...
Meh. Much like with Titus Andronicus, I can't seem to get much out Shakespeare's treatment of Roman tales. Ovid told it better. Ovid always seems to have told it better, imo, but I guess that is why 2000+ years on, we're still talking about him and reading his books. Not that Shakespeare's works ...
I have been foiled by my own planning. I took short-cuts with creating the index of works on my Will's World project page, and never double checked the order or even completeness of the list. Now I have just discovered that there are works missing in between, or they are not in the order of the Oxf...
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