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redfiona99I see LJ have changed the graphic you see if someone makes an LJ cut. I think I like it even if I don't understand why they've done it.
Shakespeare Meme - Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
I shall have to go with the obvious, which is the bit in Act 1, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet where it's all
Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
Romeo: Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg'd.
Kisses her.
Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd!
Give me my sin again.
And so on, it's the most ridiculously over-the-top thing ever, and perfectly fitting the characters. Teenagers, never change.
I've gone with this because I've been told promising to kill your best friend is not a romantic gesture (also, it reflects badly on Benedick that Claudio is his best friend), and most of Viola's pronouncements don't work written down. The bit at the end of Hamlet, Act five scene 2, from 'I am dead, Horatio' to 'And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest', breaks me every time, but how romantic it is varies with version. Macbeth's act five, scene five soliloquy is heartbreaking, and Lady Macbeth's death is the point where Macbeth dies, the rest of it is just his body catching up with him. I might not like chunks of the rest of it, but the Peter Hall/ Ian McKellen Macbeth is my favourite version of this scene.
Day #1: Favourite play
Day #2: Favourite character
Day #3: Favourite hero
Day #4: Favourite heroine
Day #5: Favourite villain
Day #6: Favourite villainess
Day #7: Favourite clown
Day #8: Favourite comedy
Day #9: Favourite tragedy
Day #10: Favourite historical
Day #11: Least favourite play
Day #12: Favourite scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
Shakespeare Meme - Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene
I shall have to go with the obvious, which is the bit in Act 1, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet where it's all
Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
Romeo: Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg'd.
Kisses her.
Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd!
Give me my sin again.
And so on, it's the most ridiculously over-the-top thing ever, and perfectly fitting the characters. Teenagers, never change.
I've gone with this because I've been told promising to kill your best friend is not a romantic gesture (also, it reflects badly on Benedick that Claudio is his best friend), and most of Viola's pronouncements don't work written down. The bit at the end of Hamlet, Act five scene 2, from 'I am dead, Horatio' to 'And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest', breaks me every time, but how romantic it is varies with version. Macbeth's act five, scene five soliloquy is heartbreaking, and Lady Macbeth's death is the point where Macbeth dies, the rest of it is just his body catching up with him. I might not like chunks of the rest of it, but the Peter Hall/ Ian McKellen Macbeth is my favourite version of this scene.
Day #1: Favourite play
Day #2: Favourite character
Day #3: Favourite hero
Day #4: Favourite heroine
Day #5: Favourite villain
Day #6: Favourite villainess
Day #7: Favourite clown
Day #8: Favourite comedy
Day #9: Favourite tragedy
Day #10: Favourite historical
Day #11: Least favourite play
Day #12: Favourite scene
Day #14: Your favorite fight scene
Day #15: The first play you read
Day #16: Your first play you saw
Day #17: Your favorite speech
Day #18: Your favorite dialogue
Day #19: Your favorite movie version of a play
Day #20: Your favorite movie adaptation of a play
Day #21: An overrated play
Day #22: An underrated play
Day #23: A role you've never played but would love to play
Day #24: An actor or actress you would love to see in a particular role
Day #25: Sooner or later, everyone has to choose: Hal or Falstaff?
Day #26: Your favorite couple
Day #27: Your favorite couplet
Day #28: Your favorite joke
Day #29: Your favorite sonnet
Day #30: Your favorite single line
