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Shakespeare in reading order (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5)

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I would say Shakespeare continues to be a touchstone. Like most teenagers in high school, when we were assigned, I don’t know, “The Tempest” or something, I thought, ‘My God, this is boring.’ And I took this wonderful Shakespeare class in college where I just started to read the tragedies and dig into them. And that, I think, is foundational for me in understanding how certain patterns repeat themselves and play themselves out between human beings.

President Obama

(via shakespearenews)

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Shakespeare Trilogy: Clare Dunne (Prince Hal) and Harriet Walter (Henry IV) in Henry IV.

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@people who think mercutio is straight

you were saying?

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“When inmates have the opportunity to do programs like this, it makes the entire prison safer,” says Currier. The trust exercises help, but examining the material leads to self-examination, too. In the case of Macbeth , inmates discussed the nature of crime: Why does someone choose to break the law? What are the unintended consequences?

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“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, directed by Laurent Pelly / Saturday, March 10, 2012

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There is a history in all men’s lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

Warwick (Henry IV Part 2, Act III scene i)

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From the creator of Girl/Girl Scene.  Starring Tucky Williams and Emily Fleischer.  The timeless love story retold, with two women as the star-crossed lovers.  A modern, lesbian reimagining of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.  

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And since I am dead, I can take off my head, to recite Shakespearean quotations…

Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

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“Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.

Hamlet (3.2.)

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Ms. Walter’s own experience could not be further removed from the one she conjures onstage. She grew up in a fairly well-off family — one of her ancestors, John Walter, founded The Times of London — that may have looked down on acting as bohemian slumming. Yet a relative provided young Harriet with support: Her uncle Christopher Lee was famous for playing monsters and villains. “My uncle being a film star made it easier for me to announce to my family that I wanted to be an actor.

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Romy Schneider as Romeo Montague for the Romeo and Juliet scene in Mädchen in Uniform (1958)

dir. Géza von Radványi

cinematography by Werner Krien

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Asta Nielsen

Hamlet (1921)

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From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Lee Hall

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“in place of fairies, Prospero hauls on a forest of giant white balloons, onto which are projected images from the outside world. The whole cast sits back together, and gasps and sighs and gazes upon the wider world they can’t wait to see. Until then, they have The Tempest.”