Shakespeare Forever

renkris:

Keith Baxter as Henry V and Orson Welles as Sir John Falstaff in Chimes At Midnight.

“Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can...

The London Symphony Orchestra plays Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, The Dance of the Knights.

“She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were...

Michael Keaton as Dogberry from Branagh’s ”Much Ado About Nothing.”

Sir John Gielgud as Hamlet in 1934

“For beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.” - Much Ado About...

backwards-blackbird:

Jonathan Pryce as Hamlet, 1980, under director Richard Eyre.

shakespeareanconfessions: Shakespeare confessions ftw.

“You starvelling, you eel-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you...

shakespearean:

when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

Shakespeare at the Olympic closing ceremony.

When I spotted the quote from Hamlet I thought I was seeing things - then when I realised I wasn’t I got so excited (like when I heard the Tardis in the opening ceremony). ‘Scuse the quality of the last photo - my attempt at taking a photo of the TV.

“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that...

John Gielgud as Richard II in 1929

©Getty images

“Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Curtsied when you have, and kiss’d,— ...

gentlenight:

I shall call them Hamratio.

Christopher Plummer and Michael Cain in Hamlet.

“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious...

Christopher Plummer as Hamlet and Michael Caine as Horatio in ‘Hamlet at Elsinore’

morninglory22:

Found this in Stratford, England

magpieandwhale:

I am not yet of Percy’s mind, the Hotspur of the north; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife “Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.” “O my sweet Harry,” says she, “how many hast thou killed to-day?” “Give my roan horse a drench,” says he; and answers “some fourteen,” an hour after; “a trifle, a trifle.”

But Hal, the ladies love it.

renkris: Keith Baxter as Henry V and Orson Welles as Sir John...

"Put out the light, and then put out the light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again..."

The London Symphony Orchestra plays Prokofiev’s Romeo and...

"She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were..."

Michael Keaton as Dogberry from Branagh’s ”Much Ado...

Sir John Gielgud as Hamlet in 1934

"For beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood."

backwards-blackbird: Jonathan Pryce as Hamlet, 1980, under...

shakespeareanconfessions: Shakespeare confessions ftw.

Shakespeare's Insult of the Week

shakespearean: when I waked, I cried to dream again....

"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were..."

John Gielgud as Richard II in 1929 ©Getty images

"Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Curtsied when you have, and kiss’d,— The..."

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gentlenight: I shall call them Hamratio. Christopher Plummer...

"Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel..."

Christopher Plummer as Hamlet and Michael Caine as Horatio in...

morninglory22: Found this in Stratford, England

magpieandwhale: I am not yet of Percy’s mind, the Hotspur of...