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CELEBRATING WILLIAM ON THIS DAY

curiousa2z

curiousa2z

Be patient till the last.
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,
Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice, in it, and in my rhyme.
 
Sonnet 17.
 
You'd know it! :D


Got a favourite sonnet of your own?

Of his writings for theatre, The Scottish Play is probably my favourite, followed very closely by a Midsummer Night's Dream.
Or vice versa, depending on my mood.
 
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS NEROON.
 
Eggsy! How's the working stiff?
Wot's your favourite work by the Bard?
 
Shakespeare set the bar (OR SHOULD I SAY BARD) too high the bastard.
 
curiousa2z said:
Got a favourite sonnet of your own?
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It varies. There are a few I hold higher than the rest.


Sonnet 123

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old,
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
This I do vow and this shall ever be;
I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee
 
^ and three hundred years from now:
...so there was this guy who lived from 1564 -1616....and he wrote some stuff...and we're still reading it...
 
Depending on linguistic drift, we'll either be reading he like we do Chaucer (with lots of notes and patronizing stuff in the margins) or things'll be exactly the same "!"
 
curiousa2z said:
Eggsy! How's the working stiff?
Wot's your favourite work by the Bard?
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Sentimental faves: The Tempest and Twelfth Night.

King Lear has big cast iron balls. Hamlet's got the nuts.

Richard III is sick fun.

Midsummer Night's is wonderful when done right, painful when botched.

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BTW, did you ever see A Winter's Tale, directed by Kenneth Brannaugh? Black & White indie comedy about a ragtag acting troupe trying to put on Hamlet in a church at Christmastime. Hilarious. Loved it. You will too. GO! NOW!
 
^did you like the film version with Stanley Tucci (adoring kisses), Rupert E., Michele P., Calista Flockhart et al?
 
I have the VHS somewhere I think. I'l watch it later.
 
Shakespeare was good, but lets face it, Tolkien was better. He worked in a few more hobbits, and all great literary works, as we know, are graded on the amount of short guys they can work in.
 
and blah blah blah trying to look intelligent yadda yadda yadda Shakespeare something trees something Tolkien ents Tolkien wins blah blah blah Dan Brown wins all!?
 
I was hoping this was a William Shatner celebration...
 
well he DID act in some of William Shakespeare's plays.

*cue the spear carrier!*
 
Thou sham'st the music of sweet news
By playing it to me with so sour a face.
 
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