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ITT: Your favourite Shakespeare quotes. I'll start.

What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?

>> No.4578394

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.

>> No.4578409

>>4578371
Flavius. O my good lord, the world is but a word:
Were it all yours to give it in a breath,
How quickly were it gone!

>> No.4578450

Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

Name the:
>Best Comedy
>Best Tragedy
>Best Historical
>Worst Overall

>> No.4578516

>>4578450
>Best Comedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream

>Best Tragedy
Hamlet

>Best Historical
Julius Caesar

>Worst Overall
Romeo and Juliette... inb4 debate.

>> No.4578519
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4578519

>>4578516

>Romeo and Juliette

>> No.4578545

>>4578450

>Best Comedy
The Two Noble Kinsmen
>Best Tragedy
Timon of Athens
>Best Historical
Henry V
>Worst Overall
Hamlet

>> No.4578682

>>4578545
>Timon of Athens
My nigga (y)

>> No.4578689

>>4578371
O THAT THIS TOO TOO SOLID FLESH WOULD MELT

>> No.4578691

>>4578450
>Best comedy
Much Ado About Nothing

>Best tragedy
Macbeth (though I suppose some might say it's not a tragedy and belongs more in the Gothic genre)

>Best Historical
Henry IV Part 1 (That's my stance and I'm sticking to it)

>Worst overall
A Midsummer's Night Dream (I'm not sorry)

>> No.4578710

"Life's but a poor player who struts and frets his time upon the stage, it is a story, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

>> No.4578767

When Hamlet calls man a quintessence of dust. Probably the best quote, ever, in any book I've read

>> No.4578770

>Best comedy
Much Ado About Nothing
>Best tragedy
Hamlet; anyone who disagrees, are you kidding?
>Best historical
Julius Cesar
>Worst overall
Macbeth

>> No.4578781

>>4578545

>lookatthisfaggot

>> No.4578825

>Best comedy

Love's Labour's Won

>Best Tragedy

The History of Cardenio

>Best Historical

Julius Caesar

>Worst Overall

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

>> No.4578835
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4578835

I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in favouring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like upon too trivial motion; one that converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning: what I think I utter, and spend my malice in my breath.

>> No.4578871

>>4578545
>Hamlet
>worst
There's nonconformity and then there's being a faggot.

>> No.4578873

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
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. - Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5)

>> No.4578878

Polonious: I did enact Julius Caesar

>> No.4578892

>>4578450
best comedy - merchant of venice
best tragedy - othello
best historical - anthony and cleopatra tied with julius caesar
worst overall - the tempest

>> No.4578897

>>4578825
best comedy a lost play?? u crazy niggah

>> No.4578901

Best Comedy - Romeo and Juliet
Best Tragedy - Hamlet
Best Historical - Antony and Cleopatra
Worst Overall - Titus Andronicus is way overrated

>> No.4578917

>>4578450
>Best Comedy
As You Like It
>Best Tragedy
Its obviously King Lear
>Best Historical
Julius Caesar
>Worst Overall
Merchant of Venice

Where do I put The Tempest?

>> No.4578926

>>4578917
>Merchant of Venice
>Worst
Explain.

>> No.4578931

>>4578926
muh antisemitism

>> No.4578944

>>4578926
Well, goy, err I mean guy...

>> No.4578945

>>4578931
you dislike it because it's anti-semitic?
wow next you will tell me you hate faulkner because his characters are racist, or nabokov because of humbert being a paedo

>> No.4578950

>>4578945
Not even that guy but Shakespeare's characterization was obviously influenced by his own prejudice and it made for a shallow play.

>> No.4578956

>>4578950
>implying that shylock isn't the hero of the play
>antonio and his band of merry faggots are completely evil and unredeemable

>> No.4578972

>>4578950
bullshit. Shylock is a great character and the play is very involving.
"Stereotypes" is a bullshit 20th century word. How about the word, "archetype"? Shylock fits the miserly Jew archetype, which is as legitimate as any archetype. IMO Shylock is a sympathetic character. I think Shakespeare shows pity for Shylock by showing how damaging to himself Shylock's greed is.

>> No.4578968

>>4578956
>The most excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylock the Jew towards the said Merchant

>> No.4578973

>>4578926
Just because Shylock was such a retarded stereotype. I even liked his speech at the end and I liked Portia but the entire play is about how Shylock won't let shit go and it bores the shit out of me.

>> No.4578980

>>4578968
>>4578972
Shylock also shows redeeming qualities that all of the gentiles lack, for instance when Gratiano lies about what happens to his ring, but Shylock when speaking about his dead wife's ring claims "I would not trade it for a wilderness of monkeys" (makes more sense in context)

>> No.4578985

>>4578972
I never used the word stereotype. Ethnic archetypes are bad in general, though. What about the dumb nigger archetype or the lazy Mexican archetype?

>> No.4578994

>>4578985
Shylock's greed makes sense historically though; only the Jews in Venice were usurers. Plus, his anger makes sense after all of the shit he has to go through with living in a ghetto and being forced to wear a hat and being spat on by Antonio.

>> No.4579032

Hamlet or Lear for greatest tragedy?

>> No.4579045

>>4579032
Macbeth ofc. Or Anthony & Cleopatra.

>> No.4579066

>>4578371
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

>> No.4579670
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4579670

'Tis all one. I will show myself a tyrant. When I have fought with the men, I will be civil with the maids. I will cut off their heads.
>The heads of the maids?
Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads.
Take it in what sense thou wilt.
>They must take it in sense that feel it.
Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and
’tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.

>> No.4580103
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4580103

From Macbeth:
He has killed me, Mother.

Well no shit.

>> No.4580207

The singing masons building roofs of gold,
The civil citizens kneading up the honey,

>> No.4580212

For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.

>> No.4580575

No, they cannot touch me for coining. I am the king himself.

>> No.4580582

>>4579670
Oh my.

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4580602

>>4578371
'Having nothing, nothing can he lose.'
'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.'
'You draw me, you heard-hearted adamant. But yet you draw not iron, for my heart is true as steel.'
'The worst is not, so long as we can say 'this is the worst.''

>>4578450
>Best Comedy
As You Like It

>Best Tragedy
Macbeth

>Best Historical
Julius Caesar

>Worst Overall
Henry IV, Part 2

no one is going to argue my 'worst overall,' so i think that's proof enough.

>> No.4580656

slightly tangential but would it be fair to call bach the shakespeare of music?

>> No.4580662

>>4580656
sort of but no

i mean in a way, because he's sort of the most titan-like composer out there, but no in that he's not really all that shakespearean in any special way

>> No.4580708

At the moment i have a thing for Coriolanus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWq2BxNtUnM

"Men and lads"
For me Shakespeare was really great at referring , not only to larger subjects, love, death etc. but also just very minor ones, like Othello reffering to his conquest of Desdemonia by saying "These arms of mine." Or "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't."

Excluding Rilke, this has no equal (for me).

>> No.4580720

>>4578371
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy

>> No.4580744

>>4580656
Bach is known for his technical ability, specifically pertaining to counterpoint, a defining trait of baroque. He doesn't feel much like Shakespear to me.

>> No.4580770

>>4578371
God is dead

>> No.4580775

>>4580770
No one invited you Nietzsche.

Obligatory remark about how your will to power invited yourself

>> No.4580856

the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon

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4580881

>>4578835

>> No.4581625

>>4578371
>What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Because the only one I know beside To be or not to be