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“The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.” Henry VI, part 1
Setting Sun, by Dame Laura Knight, 20th century

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2021-06-20

Oberon:
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream A2Sc1
The Bard





Art: Alyssa Menold

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2021-06-20

The enchanting art of Arthur Rackham brings to life his 1908 edition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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2021-06-15

"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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2021-06-13

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

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2021-06-13

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

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2021-06-13

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

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2021-06-13

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

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2021-06-07

“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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2021-05-30

“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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2021-05-30

The quote from Macbeth that reads
"look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't"
never seems to lose its relevance...


Art self

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2021-05-30

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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2021-05-24

"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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2021-05-16

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

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2021-05-16

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

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2021-05-09

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

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2021-05-09

"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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2021-04-26

“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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2021-04-25