"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end"

Sonnet 60

Image: The Sea at Etretat by Johann Barthold Jongkind, 1853.

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"The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland" ~ Richard II (A2,S2).

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"We see the waters swell before a boisterous storm." ~ Richard III (A2,S3).

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"Your mind is tossing on the ocean" ~ Merchant of Venice (A1,S1).

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“This house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as hell.” ~ Twelfth Night (A4,S2).

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“Say ay, and be the captain of us all: We'll do thee homage and be ruled by” Two Gentlemen Of Verona IV, i

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“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

~As You Like It~

by Amy Sol

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I always loved John Waterhouse for loving the Bard’s smart, female characters: Miranda, Ophelia, Cleopatra, & Juliet. He didn’t drown them in Elizabethan fashion either, but painted them in a Victorian alchemy of bohemian beauty, & assured selfhood. ☺️❤️

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"And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

🖼️ Edmund Dulac "Beauty Saw the Castle in the Distance" (1910)

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“The best actors in the world,”
Hamlet (II,2)

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And yet we ventur'd, for the gain propos'd ... " ~ Henry IV, Pt 2 (A1S1).

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"To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores" ~ The Winter's Tale (A4,S4).

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"Be suffering what it may, Time will bring summer,
When shall have leaves, as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp."

🌹 All's Well That Ends Well

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“And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

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From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him.
Sonnet 98
Ida Bohatta c1930’s

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PROSPERO

A grace it had, devouring.

3.3 The Tempest

Mermaid 💙 Howard Pyle 🇺🇸

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“The king is to be feared as the lion”
Henry IV, Part 1 3.2

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“So Painted to Make her Fair”
(Two Gentlemen of Verona A2 S1)
“Maybe She Doth but Counterfeit”
(Much Ado About Nothing A2 S3)
Art by Rosalind Lyons, inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. She was formerly Artist in Residence at the Globe https://t.co/VTDoxJ2qGk

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