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Favourite Shakespeare Quotations.....Guess the quote, then add a new one....

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DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 08:54

Looks like I inadvertently started a Shakespeare quotations thread on the Film quotes...Have been challenged by Worktostaysane. Come on all you English scholars! Here's an easy one to start us off:

"Kiss me Kate!"

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monkeyAGGHHtrousers · 26/03/2007 22:46

or past compare - not sure soz

monkeyAGGHHtrousers · 26/03/2007 22:47

Hijack - what you doing Beety, directing?

Beetrootccio · 27/03/2007 06:59

yes MT

Elasticwoman · 27/03/2007 10:53

Is the feminist one Taming of the Shrew, MT?

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.

monkeytrousers · 27/03/2007 12:50

it is EW.

That's Anne from Richard II.

Erm..

Demand of me nothing: what you know,
you know;
from this time forth I will never speak word.

Elasticwoman · 27/03/2007 13:53

No, the quality of mercy is Portia from Merchant of Venice, MT.

Martianbishop still hasn't spilled the beans about gilding the gold not the lily.

Demand of me nothing ... I guess Cordelia from King Lear??

Famous last words:

"You will find me a grave man tomorrow."

monkeytrousers · 27/03/2007 20:59

Aw, of course!

Mine was Iago's last words.

IfItWasntForThosePeskyKids · 29/03/2007 20:30

Oh EW - Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet

IfItWasntForThosePeskyKids · 29/03/2007 20:33

And sorry

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bed fellows"

Blandmum · 29/03/2007 20:37

Gilding the lily is from King John

Not one of his best, but what a stonking line eh?

Elasticwoman · 29/03/2007 20:59

That's right Ifitwasn't.

King John, eh, Martianbishop. No wonder I didn't recognise it. But do you know where the Magna Carta was signed?

At the bottom.

Elasticwoman · 30/03/2007 17:19

Misery acquaints man with strange bedfellows.

H'mmm, quite a few miserable characters in Shakespeare. Lear? Othello? OK who was it then, Ifitwasn't?

Jessicatmagnificat · 31/03/2007 09:35

Elastic Woman: I know this, it's "The Tempest"(to go off topic for a moment, the Patrick Stewart version at the RSC last summer was AMAZING!)

How about "Be not afraid of shadows" Clue: one of the History plays

Elasticwoman · 01/04/2007 15:15

Richard III?

Which Shakespearean character said:
"Toenails, on the other hand, hardly ever grow."

Elasticwoman · 03/04/2007 12:06

Give up?

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DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 12:08

Isn't it from that Tom Stoppard play....er...thingy. I'll remember it in a minute

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DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 12:10

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Otherwise...I guess it must be Hamlet

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sassy · 03/04/2007 12:10

Do you mean Rosencratz and Gildernstern are dead, Dr D?
(Not stalking you today, honest )

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DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 12:12

Yes. I think Rosencrantz says this...

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Elasticwoman · 03/04/2007 14:53

Right. R & G it is.

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DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 18:05

OK, here's another:

"Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains."

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DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 18:06

Oops. Thought I was posting on the other quotations thread ...Ignore that. It's not Shakespeare obviously.

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DrDaddy · 03/04/2007 18:06

"On St. Crispin's Day!!"

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Elasticwoman · 03/04/2007 22:02

Man is born free ... is that Voltaire?

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DrDaddy · 04/04/2007 10:20

No, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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