Great piece on how Eminem and Shakespeare are so similar. Its definitely possible to be big fans of both - just like me!
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
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Thursday, 25 August 2011
Shakespeare Love Quotes – Top 10 Shakespeare Love Quotes
As our list of top 10 Shakespeare love quotes reveals, Shakespeare remains the world’s most romantic poet and dramatist. He is responsible for Romeo and Juliet and Sonnet 18, the greatest love story and poetry ever written. Discover the top 10 Shakespeare love quotes here.
Top 10 Shakespeare Love Quotes
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
- Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
(Romeo and Juliet)
- If music be the food of love, play on.
(Twelfth Night)
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
(Sonnet 18)
- Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
(Twelfth Night)
- Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service.
(The Tempest)
- I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
(Much Ado About Nothing)
- One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.
(The Merchant of Venice)
- Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.
(Romeo and Juliet)
- Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
(As You Like It)
What do you think? I think I can pick out better ones
Check them out at shakespeare love poems
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Wednesday, 24 August 2011
My own article on Shakespeare love quotes
I wrote this!
Check it out for some of the best and most famous Shakespeare love quotes
Friday, 19 August 2011
Word of the Day: Magic
Somewhat surprisingly, there are only thirteen uses of the word “magic”, across eight of Shakespeare’s plays. Further, each appearance of the word is as often the cue for a reflection on dramaturgy as it is for a use of thaumaturgy. Prospero, for example, although a practitioner of “rough magic”, nevertheless needs his “magic robes” to do so, and thus on-stage magic becomes as much about the costume as the effects. Perhaps more striking than this, there is the ending of The Winter’s Tale, when Leontes is brought to see a statue of his wife, whom he believes dead but who is in fact – in a set-piece of virtuoso acting – pretending to be the very statue that he admires. When Leontes touches her, and remarks “O she’s warm”, he praises theatrical artistry as much as fantastical events:
If this be magic, let it be an art
Lawful as eating.The lawfulness of magic is evoked elsewhere in Shakespeare. Othello picks up the negative connotations of the word when he, ironically, tells the Venetian senate of the “magic” that, according to them, he must have used in order to woo Desdemona. Such ironic reference to magic comes back later in the play, when the moor imagines the magical creation of the handkerchief he gave to Desdemona, whose presence in Camillo’s chamber forces Othello over the edge.
OTHELLO Tis ture: there’s magic in the web of it:
A sibyl, that had number’d in the world
The sun to course two hundred compasses,
In her prophetic fury sew’d the work;
The worms were hallow’d that did breed the silk;
And it was dy’d in mummy which the skillful
Conserv’d of maiden’s hearts.The magic of the handkerchief is ultimately manifested in the way in which it inflames Othello’s jealousy. Something similar occurs in Hamlet, where the “magic” poison of the play-within-a-play (again overlapping theatre and sorcery) provokes the very real anger of Claudius whom it directly accuses.
In that accusation, Claudius is himself made out as the user of the “magic” poison that kills Old Hamlet, and this is but one of several examples of evil or so-called ‘black’ magic in Shakespeare’s work. Exeter, at the funeral of Henry V with which Henry VI part I opens, imagines the black magic of the French which could have “contriv’d” the end of the king; whilst in Macbeth, the evil coven of witches represents perhaps the most prominent black magic users of Shakespeare’s canon. It is after all, Hecate, the queen of the witches, who in an oft-cut speech promises:
HECATE [...] There hangs a vaporous drop profound;
I’ll catch it ere it come to ground:
And that, distill’d by magic sleights,
Shall raise such artificial sprites,
As, by strength of their illusion,
Shall draw [Macbeth] to his confusion:
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes ‘bove wisdom, grace, and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals’ chiefest enemy.
Its surprising how Shakespeare only uses the word magic 13 times in all of his works! Still, there's enough magic in his work already
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