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

259 replies

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!"

OP posts:
Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:13

turq
12th night again

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:14

Salad days is Antony and Cleopatra.

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:14

nobody has got meylast two

My salad days,
When I was green in judgement

and

Let's have one other gaudy night

OR

Love, friendship, charity are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:15

WElll dr MOO

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:16

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day...

turquoise · 23/03/2007 09:16

Beetroot's are hard!

Jess - HenryVI pt 2 (1st one) Malvolio 2nd one.

Dammit, I have to go out when its a good game.

Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 09:17

Beet: Is the "Gaudy night" from Antony and Cleopatra?

Is the love and friendship one from A Winter's Tale? Really stuck on that one.

DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 09:17

Turq - I'm guessing Henry VI maybe, given the historical connotations...But which part? 1 or 2?

OP posts:
Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:18

yes to ANT&CLEO

No to Winters Tale

CLUE _ two names

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:18

I think park 2??

DrDaddy · 23/03/2007 09:18

Yep. Meeting to go to now too. Have fun...

OP posts:
Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:19

Some rise by sin
Some by virtue fall

yeahinaminute · 23/03/2007 09:19

DrMarthaMoo - Time and the hour quote from macbeth - Macbeth mutters it to himself !

turquoise · 23/03/2007 09:19

Romeo and juliet?

Yes, Part 2. (Dr Daddy)

Last one from me:

"I have drunk, and seen the spider.."

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:20

Romeo and Juliet? The love friendship charity one?

Yes, it is Macbeth!

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:21

Nothing will come of nothing, speak again

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:21

nope MOO

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:21

Don't know that spider one...

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:21

Macbeth Moo

Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 09:22

Dr Martha - that's King Lear to Cordelia! My tutor used to quote that at me when I just couldn't get started with an essay!

Waswondering · 23/03/2007 09:22

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DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:22

Process of elimination then...

Troilus and Cressida (never read it though)

er...Ant and Cleo again?

Beetrootccio · 23/03/2007 09:23

Spider = Winters Tale

DrMarthaMcMoo · 23/03/2007 09:23

The Tempest

Jessicatmagnificat · 23/03/2007 09:23

Beet: really stuck, but guessing either "Troilus and Cressida" or "Venus and Adonis"?????