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"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear;
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream ..."

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2020-12-28

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
~ A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Four Lovers Sleep in the Wood ~ Christian Birmingham

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2020-12-27

Extra credit work I did for my literature class. I’ve got beef with Shakespeare.

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2020-12-28

"One feast, one house, one mutual happiness." ~ 2GofV (A5,S4).


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2020-12-20

Utterly fabulous to have in our archive original photos of renowned British actor Denholm Elliot performing Twelfth Night at Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf.

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2020-12-14

"All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."

Sonnet 43

Image: Le Reveil by Jean Francois Rafaelli. c. 1885-95.

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2020-12-07

❄️🌹❄️"At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows."

🤍Love's Labour Lost

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2020-12-06

"But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp."

- All's Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Scene 4

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2020-12-06

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time" - Macbeth


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2020-12-06

“Let me embrace these sour adversities:
For wise men say it is the wisest course.”

Henry VI, Part III, Act III, sc. 1.

🖼️'Back to Brick' : : My Modern Met

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2020-12-06

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans."

Merchant of Venice

The Fairies' Banquet - John Anster Fitzgerald, 1859
(Public Domain)

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2020-11-29

“I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety” ~ Henry V (A3,S2).

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2020-11-29

"He's a God or a Painter; for he makes faces." ~ Love's Labour's Lost (A5,S2).

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2020-11-22

Then fiery expedition be my wing,
Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!

- Richard III

[Mercury (Hermes), Olympian god of boundaries and travellers, and herald and messenger of Zeus. Ceiling painting (detail: Mercury), City Palace, Potsdam by van Loo 1751]

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2020-11-22



"How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!"

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2020-11-16

"Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service" ~ The Tempest (A3,S1).

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2020-11-08