mother, dog lover, teacher, former lawyer, opera, literature. Every translation from Italian is my own. ShakespeareSunday and English are my only addictions .
Milan, Lombardy
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#ShakespeareSunday “Don Pedro: ... to be merry best becomes you, for out o’ question, you were born in a merry hour.
Beatrice: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then
there was a star danced, and under that was I born. MAAN II,1
#ShakespeareSunday “Time travels in divers paces with divers persons” As you like it III,2
#ShakespeareSunday “"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather" - The Passionate Pilgrim
#ShakespeareSunday “We are but warriors for the working-day;
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
With rainy marching in the painful field;
There's not a piece of feather in our host” Henry V act 4, 3
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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme will be two plays, chosen for their supernatural elements: HAMLET 💀 & MACBETH 🗡
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Now on BBC iPlayer: The extraordinary story of how three modern cryptographers decoded and identified the letters of Mary, Queen of Scots: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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Today's #ShakespeareSunday theme: HALLOWEEN! 🎃👻🦇
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“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Why, so can I; or so can any man:
But will they come when you do call for them ? “ Henry IV, p. A III, 1
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Henry V [I, 2] 👑Henry V. 🏓
'And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his hath turned his balls to gun-stones; and his soul shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance that shall fly with them' 🎾
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#ShakespeareSunday “You are right, justice, and you weigh this well.
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword.
And I do wish your honors may increase
Till you do live to see a son of mine
Offend you and obey you as I did.” Henry IV p. 2 V,2
#ShakespeareSunday “"The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which." A Midsummer Night's Dream, II,1
#ShakespeareSunday “I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.” Henry V IV,1
It should be used in schools, I bet students would fall in love with Shakespeare
The Times - 100 Best British TV shows of the 21st Century
The Hollow Crown is at 51! 🎉
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Link:
thetimes.com/article/a4fac4d…
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Henry V [V, 2] ⚜️ 👑Henry V.
'O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings.'
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"We were not born to sue, but to command;" - Richard II (A1, S1) #ShakespeareSunday
#ShakespeareSunday “Let me speak proudly: tell the constable
We are but warriors for the working-day” Henry V IV,3
#ShakespeareSunday “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!" King Lear III,2
#ShakespeareSunday “Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep: and in his simple show he harbours treason.” Henry VI part 2 III,1
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#ShakespeareSunday “A good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon— or rather the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have such a one, take me: and take me, take a soldier: take a soldier, take a king.” Henry V V,1