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“Welcome ever smiles,/And farewell goes out sighing.”
Troilus and Cressida Act Four By Dennis Abrams —————————————- Aeneas breaks the news to Troilus: Diomedes has arrived with Antenor, who is to be exchanged for Cressida With little time left, the couple tearfully exchange love tokens, and Troilus begs … Continue reading
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“Time hath, my lord,/A wallet at his back, wherein he puts/Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster/Of ingratitudes.”
Troilus and Cressida Act Three, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ————————————— From Marjorie Garber: “Another of Ulysses’ remarkable and resonant speeches, echoing down the ages, will demonstrate a similar point. [MY NOTE: She’s referring to Thersites’ parody of his ‘degree’ … Continue reading
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“What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?”
Troilus and Cressida Act Two By Dennis Abrams —————————- Act Two: Ajax questions Thersites about what is going on, but is answered with insults. Achilles arrives (with his friend/lover Patroclus) and tells Ajax about Hector’s challenge, but Achilles response is … Continue reading
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“Last scene of all,/That ends this strange eventful history,/Is second childishness and mere oblivion,/Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
As You Like It Another Perspectives By Dennis Abrams ————————— From Marjorie Garber: “The Forest of Arden, then, is a golden world, an Eden, an Arcady, and in some sense a tongue-in-cheek parody of all these. But what is it … Continue reading
“Caesar, now be still,/I killed not thee with half so good a will.”
Julius Caesar Act Five By Dennis Abrams —————————– Act Five: As news reaches Antony and Octavius that the enemy is approaching, the two men quarrel. As the battle commences, Brutus attacks Octavius’s troops but Cassius, believing that his own forces … Continue reading
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“O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!/Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords/In our own proper entrails.”
Julius Caesar An Introduction By Dennis Abrams ————————— Just in time for you to get your post-election political fix (if you’re American of course) we’re on to our next play, Shakespeare’s tautest study of political intrigue, Julius Caesar. It is … Continue reading
“O, that I were a mockery king of snow,/Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke/To melt myself away in water-drops!”
Richard II Act Three, Part Two By Dennis Abrams —————————— For me, we probably have yet to read a line from Shakespeare more haunting than “For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground/And tell sad stories about the death … Continue reading
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“For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Romeo and Juliet Act Five By Dennis Abrams ————– Act Five: Friar Laurence’s message explaining his plan never reaches Romeo, and the first he hears is that Juliet is dead. Grief-stricken, he rushes to Verona to Juliet’s tomb. Paris is … Continue reading
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O sweet Juliet,/Thy beauty hath made me effeminate /And in my temper soften’d valour’s steel!
Romeo and Juliet Act Three, Part One By Dennis Abrams ——————————– Act Three: Benvolio and Mercutio are walking through the streets when they are approached by an angry Tybalt, who is looking to challenge Romeo. Arriving on the scene directly … Continue reading
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“Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature. For this driveling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.”
Romeo and Juliet Act Two, Part Two By Dennis Abrams ——————————————— From Stanley Wells, another view of the balcony scene, plus a glimpse of the Nurse and Mercutio: “For all the scene’s rapture, it is conceived in fully dramatic terms. … Continue reading
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