Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.
quote by Julie Taymor
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What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
quote by Brendan Fraser
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Hamlet: These indeed seem, for they are actions that a man might play. But I have that within which passeth show; these but the trappings and the suits of woe.
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Madam, how like you this play?
Gertrude: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play have by the very cunning of the scene been struck so to the soul that presently they have proclaim'd their malefactions.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet
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King Claudius: How fares our cousin Hamlet?
Hamlet: Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Queen Gertrude: O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Hamlet: Oh, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
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Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
That arise and set about Us—
Other Tragedy
Perish in the Recitation—
This—the best enact
When the Audience is scattered
And the Boxes shut—
"Hamlet" to Himself were Hamlet—
Had not Shakespeare wrote—
Though the "Romeo" left no Record
Of his Juliet,
It were infinite enacted
In the Human Heart—
Only Theatre recorded
Owner cannot shut—
poem by Emily Dickinson
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Benvolio: O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio’s dead!
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.
line from Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1597)
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Emily Dickinson Is Not Borges
EMILY DICKINSON IS NOT BORGES
Emily Dickinson is not Borges
And Borges is not Kafka
And Kafka is not Dickens
And no one is Shakespeare-
Each one is only one self
Except for those who are many selves
And those who are many selves
Do not know
Who they themselves are-
Lear is not Falstaff
And Falstaff is not Hamlet
And Hamlet is not Shakespeare
And Shakespeare is not Donne-
No one is anyone but themselves
And even those who are really ‘someone'
Are not all the others who also are-
And we who are nothing at all?
What are we?
We are not nothing at all.
We are not great
And no one will remember our names
But we are still here now
Reading Borges and Dickenson and Kafka and Shakespeare
And wondering how and why
There are those in a world of their own
With names of their own
They themselves will never completely know.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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Hamlet: Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew.
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what
replication should be made by the son of a king?
line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: There are more things in heaven and earth Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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Hamlet: The time is out of joint. O, cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,' -- the proverb is something musty.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to know himself.
line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o’er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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