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"The web of our life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.” 

- William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

villain counselor

“If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid”

– Polonius in Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii

over realming

big kids

 

most famous yet unknown writer

 

on resilience

"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

- William Shakespeare [1564-1616]

first modernist

"Caravaggio [1571-1610] is the first artist in history whose paintings seem directly concerned with his own life. Ten years before Shakespeare invented Hamlet, Caravaggio painted Saint Francis in solitary dialogue with a skull. Caravaggio introduced soliloquy into painting at the same time that Shakespeare perfected it in drama."
- John T. Spike

portuguese shakespeare

“Time changes, and our desires change. What we 
believe – even what we are – is ever-changing. The world is change, which forever takes on new qualities.”
– Luís Vaz de Camões

on pschopathy

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.
Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am.
Then fly! What, from myself? Great reason why:
Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?
Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? For any good
That I myself have done unto myself?
O, no! Alas, I rather hate myself
For hateful deeds committed by myself.
I am a villain. Yet I lie. I am not.
Fool, of thyself speak well. Fool, do not flatter.
- Richard III, Act 5, Scene 3, Shakespeare [circa 1593]

quality and quantity

"He wrote more words than Shakespeare and Dickens combined."
- On Winston Churchill, who was advised by Ernest Cassel to write to pay the bills

limitations of human thought.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

The Scottish Play

[Life] is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
- Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

an early appeal of theatre

You could laugh which was forbidden in church.

"(I'm) calling myself bad until I be best."
- Richard III

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Tis nothing good or bad
But thinking makes it so
- William Shakespeare

"I am a man more sinned against than sinning."

- King Lear

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"Playing Shakespeare pays the soul but not the rent."
- Stacy Keach

House of Lancaster

“But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection."
- William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV Scene I

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"I go and see Hamlet every ten years and I see that Shakespeare has rewritten it."
- Dorothy Parker

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Room of the Giants

Giulio Romano was the only artist Shakespeare praised by name.