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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHaving some dinner and drinks with Will Shakespeare.
Ask us anything...
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)I read recently that the Earth is 80% brighter in the Moon's sky than the Moon is in ours.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Tunnel of Love
Sure miss DS...
"sigh"
Aristus
(66,388 posts)or sleeping BTW Your partying could wake the dead.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)The ghost of Hamlet's father breezed through here not long ago, wondering what all the ruckus was about...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)Come! A drink for thee! For thou, mine angel of the East!"
What a silver-tongued devil he is...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)love_katz
(2,580 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)That you have but slumber'd here while these shadows did appear."
He adds to that:
"And that is good English."
underpants
(182,829 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)The first is from the epilogue (in sonnet form) from A Midsummer Night's Dream and spoken by Puck. The second is a line from Henry V.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Kind of difficult to choose, I realize.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)Tragedy: King Lear.
History: Richard III.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)The scene where he carries in Cordelia's body, the noose still around her neck, is shattering, as is the scene previous where Lear reveals that she had "cause" to reject him and she says "no cause...no cause..." It is a stunningly intimate moment...
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Comedy-- Midsummer's Night Dream
Tragedy -- Hamlet
History -- Richard III
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,637 posts)I have been preoccupied with various doings in my own silly life of late...
Please forgive me!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
Pretty insightful words (of course!)
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)From a minor procedure.
Super nauseated and feeling like I've been hit by a bus.
Hope tomorrow's better and I can think of drinking and dinner with you and Will.