Richard III: Richie offers kindom for a horse. The price is right.
The taming of the Shrew: Macho weds feminist, wins. Fantasy.
Hamlet: Displeased by mother’s second marriage, prince becomes addicted to soliloquies. Origin of a broadway malady.
Othello: General kills wife when she loses her handkerchief. Severe blow.
Macbeth: Pushy wife urges husband to make a killing and can’t wash her hands. Early soaper.
Twelfth Night: In love with girl transvestite, lady marries girl’s brother and doesn’t know the difference. Poor lightning
These are undeniably brilliant.
Via: The Tv viewer’s guide to Shakespeare
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
(Sherlock Holmes)
(via Jeremy Brett )
I can’t seem to find the “reblog” button, on that site. Most distressing.
Ah well.
Jeremy Brett
Jeremy Brett.
There comes an end to summer,
To spring showers and hoar rime;
His mumming to each mummer
Has somewhere end in time,
And since life ends and laughter,
And leaves fall and tears dry,
Who shall call love immortal,
When all that is must die ?
Nay, sweet, let’s leave unspoken
The vows the fates gainsay,
For all vows made are broken,
We love but while we may.
Let’s kiss when kissing pleases,
And part when kisses pall,
Perchance, this time to-morrow,
We shall not love at all.
You ask my love completest,
As strong next year as now,
The devil take you, sweetest,
Ere I make aught such vow.
Life is a masque that changes,
A fig for constancy!
No love at all were better,
Than love which is not free.
Heavenly
Emerald Flows (via elliot23)