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“Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That...
View Article"Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torments me...
“Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain, Have...
View Article"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” - Twelfth Night (3.1.122) Olivia
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Ian McKellen (Iago) and Imogen Stubbs (Desdemona) in RSC’s Othello (1989)
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““Iago is an easy part to bring off and rarely fails to impress. I am not the first to...
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Portia by Henry Woods (1888) “In Belmont is a lady richly left;And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyesI did receive fair speechless messages:Her name is...
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“So weary with disasters, tugg’d with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend...
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buffalo-divine-eden-no7: Joker of the King Lear by ~Rezat
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“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures...
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svetlana-del-rey: Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
View ArticleMichael Sheen as Hamlet in a 2011 production at the Young Vic.
Michael Sheen as Hamlet in a 2011 production at the Young Vic.
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“Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and...
View Article"I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
“I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.” - Hamlet...
View ArticleJonathan Pryce in 1980 as Hamlet, playing the role as possessed...
Jonathan Pryce in 1980 as Hamlet, playing the role as possessed by his father’s ghost, performing the scene (Act I, scene 5) as a monologue. It won the Olivier Award and was directed by Richard Eyre.
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