/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2429151]

What's your favourite Shakespeare line?

Mine is:

>The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more

[Anonymous No.2429161]

Faith sir, we were carousing till the
second cock: and drink, sir, is a great 785
provoker of three things.

[Anonymous No.2429174]

Bitches aint shit but hoes and tricks - Macbeth

[Anonymous No.2429224]

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world!
That has such people in it!

[Anonymous No.2429227]

Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest

[Anonymous No.2429235]

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;

cliche, yes, but whatever

[Anonymous No.2429239]

Which one is the worst/best: to live or to die?

I know that maybe we should just accept all this crap going on in our heads and the shit hitting the fan in our daily lives, but sometimes I think we should face this ocean of piss straight and game over. I mean, once you die you are just there lying still, right? I don't know... But at least we don't have that bad feel anymore, no one can kick us in the balls no more.

That's cool, kinda want that so bad sometimes. Be dead and all, maybe some crazy shit happends But that is the problem, whatever happends, it is for fucking forever, man. I think that is what fucks shit up right there.

Who is the idiot who is going to stand for this shit? Why do we have to see the corrupt politician on tv everyday, the arrogant pricks... Be friendzoned by a girl here, be fucked up by the law there, hear the cops bs, and we all know the fucktards get the prizes while the good guys lose. I mean, why cope with all that when you can just cut your wrists and end this shit once and for all?

I think that we are just pussies afraid of dying, that's all, that's why we take so much crap. We don't know what is going to happen because you can't come back from it, so we get confused and all. Better to face the facts now, than face the shit that we don't know anything about after we die, right?

We are just a bunch of cowards for thinking all that much on it, I'm telling ya. Everytime someone wants to just an hero, he goes on thinking things too much and get's caught in the trap all over again. And then everything you were thinking of doing is just worth horse shit and you do nothing at all.

Fuck, my gf on the phone right now guys...

[Anonymous No.2429244]

>>2429239
2 be not 2 be dat is question..
weather tis nobest in d mind suffer
d sligns n arrow of outrage fortoon,,
ot 2 tek arms gainst see f trouble
n by opose and then too dy 2 slip
no moar....... n by sleep 2 said we and
d hartache n d 1000 natrual shoks
dat flesh is hair 2??? tis a consmation
devautely too b wish.... 2 die 2 slip
2slip por chanse too Drimm, ya der d rub
4 in dat slip of deaf wat dreems mei cum,,
wen we hav chuffle of dis moratl couil
must giv pous........ ders d respetc
dat maks calanity of soul long liv
4 how wd bear d wips n scorns of tiem
d opresor Rong,, d prowd mens conmutely,,
d bangs of depizd luv d laws delei,
d imsolnce of offfise n d sburns
dat patiant married of d unworty taks,,
wen he heself mite he qietus mak
wit a bare bodkim?????? how wd fardel bear
too groont n sweet und a weer liv,
but dat d dredd of sumting aftr deaf
d un discoovrd contry,, from whoos born
no travel return, pzzls d ll,
n maks we rader bear dose eew we has,
then fly 2 otters dat we no not of
dus consience do maks coward of we all,,
n dus d nativ hew of reslution
Is sicked er wit d pail cast of though,,
n entreprize of grt peach n momemt,
wit dis regrad deir curent turn alry
n loos d naem of actiun...... sof u nao,
the feir ophelia?? nimp in tigh horizons
b all me sims remberd

[Anonymous No.2429308]

I could be bound in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

[Anonymous No.2429318]

And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer
Never to hope again.

[Anonymous No.2429387]

For pity of mine age, whose youth was spent
In dangerous wars, whilst you securely slept;
For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed;
For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd;
And for these bitter tears, which now you see
Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks;
Be pitiful to my condemned sons,
Whose souls are not corrupted as 'tis thought.
For two and twenty sons I never wept,
Because they died in honour's lofty bed.
[Lieth down; the Judges, &c., pass by him, and Exeunt]
For these, these, tribunes, in the dust I write
My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears:
Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite;
My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush.


bitches don't know bout my titus

[Anonymous No.2429397]

also
A stone is soft as wax,—tribunes more hard than stones;
A stone is silent, and offendeth not,
And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.

[Anonymous No.2429832]

CLEOPATRA. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
ANTONY. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
BTW it is the only shakespeare book/play i've ever read

[Anonymous No.2430030]

And this word 'love,' which graybeards call divine,
Be resident in men like one another
And not in me: I am myself alone.

[Anonymous No.2430341]

Why, all delights are vain!

[Anonymous No.2430350]

might as well use this thread instead of making a new one:

I've read Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. I'm planning to read King Lear next, but I'd like to know which plays I should read after that

[sandwiches No.2430518]

>>2430350
Sometimes I think King Lear is his best but it's absolutely devastating and the most depressing art work I've ever encountered.

You'll definitely need to read the following

Henry IV (both parts) - Falstaff is hilarious, everyone loves him
As You Like It - I love Rosalind so much
Antony and Cleopatra - One of his greatest characters
Twelfth Night - just lots of fun

After that

Measure for Measure
Coriolanus
A Winter's Tale
The Tempest

[Anonymous No.2430539]

Shakespeare is overrated, i wouldnt ever read that smut if i didnt have to for classes

[Anonymous No.2430543]

>>2430518
thanks

[Anonymous No.2430547]

I loved Puck's final monologue from MSND but if i were to pick on line it would be Theseus':

"The best in this trade are but shadows, and the worst are no worse if imagination amend them."

[Anonymous No.2430576]

>>2430350

Julius Caesar is amazing. Mark Antony's speech to the people.

[Anonymous No.2430589]

>>2429151

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

[Anonymous No.2430594]

Henry V. ,Scene I. France. Before Harfleur...

I love the entire speech, but this is the best line out of it-

The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

[Anonymous No.2430604]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

[Anonymous No.2430610]

Does it piss anyone else off that all shakespeare characters speak the same?

[Anonymous No.2430614]

>>2430610
but they don't

[Anonymous No.2430622]

Shylock
>I hate him for he is a Christian

[Anonymous No.2430631]

>>2430610
you're not reading close enough

[Anonymous No.2430657]

>he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,
>And fixed his head upon our battlements.
- Macbeth

[Anonymous No.2430663]

>>2430657
why is this line your favorite?

[The shepherdwoman No.2430753]

Mac Beth
Act I, Scene 4

Second witch

>By the pricking of my thumbs,
>Something wicked this way comes.
>Open, locks,
>Whoever knocks.

[Anonymous No.2430780]

"How far that little candle throws its beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world."

Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene I

[Anonymous No.2430804]

If you die and get to meet Shakespeare, do you reckon he'd be a bro? Or would he be like a real life Puck? Shit could get annoying pretty fast, i think.

You'd be sitting down, trying to enjoy a beer in the afterlife when BAM he pokes his head out from under the table and blurts some absurd, Monty Python, 'a fish, a fish, a fishy oh' type shit at you.

You'd never be able to relax.

[Anonymous No.2430830]

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

[Anonymous No.2430835]

>You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal—except my life, except my life, except my life! -Hamlet

The way Kenneth Branaugh says it in the movie is hilarious.

[Anonymous No.2430841]

>>2430835
Branagh is the most beautiful being in the world. <3

[Anonymous No.2431030]

>>2430841
> Words. Words. Wooooooooords.

[Anonymous No.2431033]

Elementary my dear Watson
Oh wait thats Himmler

[Anonymous No.2431136]

>>2430539
oh i'm sorry who are you again? oh thats right! nobody gives a shit! :)

[Anonymous No.2431276]

>>2430804
He'd be a bro, for sure. The nigga died because of a drinking bout with some actors.

[Anonymous No.2431278]

>>2429235
there's a reason things become cliche, its because people like them.

Personally I was always a fan of the "whether tis nobler in the mind..." passage. Succinctly expresses the sort of ambivalence ( in the true meaning of the word) of the thing. Is suicide the cowards response? or is it the bold plunging into the unknown. Is it taking action against our troubles or running from them.

[Anonymous No.2431281]

I have been fond of the psych up banter of Sampson and Gregory ( i think) from the beginning of Romeo and Juliet since reading it in 9th grade. Other plays are better certainly, but I love that banter.

[Anonymous No.2431305]

"Methinks 'tis like a weasel"

[Anonymous No.2431831]

Everything Mercutio says in Romeo and Juliet

[Anonymous No.2433542]

[Anonymous No.2433558]

his eyes drop millstones