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redfiona99When you see this in your flist, quote some Shakespeare.
Can I do two bits?
The first bit of Shakespeare I learnt
- "Lay on McDuff
And damn'd be he
who first cries
hold!
enough!"
Due to Mum getting v.v. pissed off about people starting that with 'Lead on'.
And another old favourite
- "We few, we happy few,
we band of brother,
for he who sheds his blood with me today
shall be my brother
be he ne'er so vile
this day shall gentle his condition
And gentlemen in England
now a'bed
shall think themselves accursed
that they were not here
and hold their manhoods cheap
while any speaks
who fought with us
upon St. Crispin's day."
MacBeth and Henry V respectively.
I know I didn't do the poetry one, but that's because I agree with the child that defined poetry as such "Poetry is when every line starts with a capital letter and doesn't reach the right side of the page." I don't, for want of a better way of putting it, get the poetry in poetry.
But good old Bill Shakesstaff, him I get.
And, as a tangent, I know I always complain about the Harry Potter films leaving out my favourite scenes. They do the same with Henry V, my favourite scene being the one with the French getting ready and the Constable and the Dauphin are insulting each other. The beginning of the scene is sometimes in, but never all of it. Mainly because it's very Shakespearean insulting, very witty, and very obscure.
But I don't mind, mainly because the adaptors normally put the other things I like in or they leave it out for good reasons, which the HP adaptors never seem to do.
Can I do two bits?
The first bit of Shakespeare I learnt
- "Lay on McDuff
And damn'd be he
who first cries
hold!
enough!"
Due to Mum getting v.v. pissed off about people starting that with 'Lead on'.
And another old favourite
- "We few, we happy few,
we band of brother,
for he who sheds his blood with me today
shall be my brother
be he ne'er so vile
this day shall gentle his condition
And gentlemen in England
now a'bed
shall think themselves accursed
that they were not here
and hold their manhoods cheap
while any speaks
who fought with us
upon St. Crispin's day."
MacBeth and Henry V respectively.
I know I didn't do the poetry one, but that's because I agree with the child that defined poetry as such "Poetry is when every line starts with a capital letter and doesn't reach the right side of the page." I don't, for want of a better way of putting it, get the poetry in poetry.
But good old Bill Shakesstaff, him I get.
And, as a tangent, I know I always complain about the Harry Potter films leaving out my favourite scenes. They do the same with Henry V, my favourite scene being the one with the French getting ready and the Constable and the Dauphin are insulting each other. The beginning of the scene is sometimes in, but never all of it. Mainly because it's very Shakespearean insulting, very witty, and very obscure.
But I don't mind, mainly because the adaptors normally put the other things I like in or they leave it out for good reasons, which the HP adaptors never seem to do.
