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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
Shakespeare's The Tempest was first performed in 1611
(art by John William Waterhouse)

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2020-11-01

"Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay:
The worst is death, and death will have his day."

Richard II, Act 3 Scene 2


Image: St George and the Dragon - The Skulls brought to the King, stained glass design by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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2020-10-26

"Or hide me nightly in a charnel house,
O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls." ~ Romeo & Juliet (A4,S1).

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2020-10-25

“List, list, O list!”

Ghosts from the plays of William Shakespeare by William Blake (1806):

👻 Hamlet encountering his father’s Ghost
👻 Richard III assailed by the ghosts of his victims
👻 Brutus and the ghost of Julius Caesar

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2020-10-25

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.

- Midsummer Night's Dream [V, 1]
🎃

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2020-10-25



" Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?"

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2020-10-12

"I have heard, but not believ'd, the spirits of the dead
May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother
Appeared to me last night; for ne'er was dream
So like a waking."
(The Winter's Tale, 3.3)

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2020-10-11

"You have seen sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears were like a better way" ~ King Lear (A4,S3)

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2020-10-11

“Tis true. There’s magic in the web of it.” Othello, Act 3, Sc 4.

The Crystal Ball, by John William Waterhouse, 1902

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2020-10-11

“For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.” Macbeth, Act 4, Sc 1.

Img: The Three Witches from Macbeth, by Daniel Gardner, 1775.
L to R: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, & Anne Seymour Damer.

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2020-10-11

"Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all."

King Lear

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2020-10-04

"Perserverance keeps honour bright:
To have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion,
Like a rusty mail in monumental mockery."

Troilus and Cressida -

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2020-10-04

"Shall I go fetch your night-gown?" ~ Othello (A4,S3).

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2020-10-04

“Gold! all gold!” ~ Winter’s Tale (A3,S3).

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2020-10-04

"Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;
So shall no foot upon the church-yard tread" ~ Romeo & Juliet (A5,S3).

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2020-10-04

" ... wears yet a precious jewel in his head." ~ As You Like It (A2,S1).

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2020-10-04

Kodansha Comics New Digital-first Manga Release for 9/29:

Seven Shakespeares, Volume 13
By Harold Sakuishi

https://t.co/QnlRi8GNH7

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2020-09-30



"When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with ..."

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2020-09-27