"he's got a lean and hungry look"
I've never heard this quoted before. Huh.
"beware the ides of march"
Oh, of course. Yeah, there are a lot of quotable lines. It's Shakespeare!
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2010 4:02:04 pm PDT #12281 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Connie Neil - Sep 02, 2010 6:11:44 pm PDT #12282 of 28333
brillig
I've never heard this quoted before.
"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous."
Kathy A - Sep 02, 2010 7:47:44 pm PDT #12283 of 28333
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think my favorite Julius Caesar quote is "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves."
-t - Sep 02, 2010 8:12:00 pm PDT #12284 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is a good one.
Sue - Sep 03, 2010 3:24:29 am PDT #12285 of 28333
hip deep in pie
...The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
...that we are underlings.
Volans - Sep 03, 2010 3:55:55 am PDT #12286 of 28333
move out and draw fire
There's a local troupe called "The Lean and Hungry Theater Company."
Back when I taught Shakespeare, the other teacher maintained that JC was the most-quoted Shakespeare. I argued, and still think, that Hamlet is.
I mean, look at all the politicians who use Polonius' advice as sincere quotage.
Jessica - Sep 03, 2010 4:04:09 am PDT #12287 of 28333
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
One of my worst Shakespeare-in-the-theatre experiences was seeing Hamlet and having the couple behind me exclaim at every fucking famous line in the play which is almost all of them, "OH! This is where that's from?"
Fred Pete - Sep 03, 2010 4:24:30 am PDT #12288 of 28333
Ann, that's a ferret.
My introduction to Hamlet was the musical version from Gilligan's Island. Actually, not a bad way to introduce a six-year-old to Shakespeare.
Aims - Sep 03, 2010 4:37:36 am PDT #12289 of 28333
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I got a library book for Em last summer that was some of the plays turned into a picture stories. It had The Tempest, R&J, Ado, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen ... I can't remember what other ones - maybe just those. But it was awesome.
I'm trying to get Em into Shakespeare - or at the very least, have a working knowledge of it so that it doesn't intimidate her to the point of disliking it intensely, like I went through. There's a whole Shakespeare for kids series that I think she's going to get for Christmas.
Ginger - Sep 03, 2010 5:28:40 am PDT #12290 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Sigh. Kirsten Miller was supposed to be in the my area of the book festival talking about her new book, The Eternal Ones, and then talking about Kiki Strike on the teen stage, but now she's only going to do the teen stage, so I won't be able to see her.