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Just so you guys know, I’ve added a link to all my Shakespeare related posts on my sidebar. Since I’m going to be re-reading the entire canon this summer and I’ll be going to graduate school for Shakespearean Studies come September, I figured I should get them all in one place.
The next play of my Shakespeare canon re-read is done. Here are my favorite lines from the Taming of the Shrew, next up is The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (The Second Part of Henry VI). I’ve always had an odd relationship with the Taming of the Shrew. I was introduced to it very early on with the Taylor/Burton film, which is spectacular by the way, and I first read the play when I was around 14. For me, at least, I’ve always enjoyed stage or film adaptations rather than reading the straight text itself. I do think it’s a great play and the struggle between Petruccio and Katherine is always entertaining, but this just isn’t one of my top ten. It is worth a read, though, if you’ve never picked it up, especially since the dialogue between Katherine and Petruccio is especially great. I’ll be done with Part 2 of Henry VI tomorrow or Monday since it isn’t very long and I particularly love the history plays.
- Music and poesy use to quicken you; the mathematics and the metaphysics, fall to them as you find your stomach serves you (1.1.36-38)
- I am content you shall entreat me stay, but yet not stay, entreat me how you can (3.3.75-76)
- Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and all foul ways (4.1.1-2)
- Would all the world but he had quite forsworn (4.2.35)
- Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love (4.2.41-42)
- My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break, and rather than it shall I will be free even to the uttermost as I please in words (4.3.77-80)
- I will neither be faced nor braved (4.3.124)
- Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, for ‘tis the mind that makes the body rich, and as the sun breaks through the darkest couds, so honour peereth in the meanest habit (4.3. 165-68)
- The moon changes even as your mind (4.6.21)
- Sir, you seem a sober, ancient gentlemen by your habit, but your words show you a madman (5.1.60-61)
- Better once than never, for never too late (5.1.130)
- At last, though long, our jarring notes agree, and time it is when raging war is done to smile at scapes and perils overblown (5.2.1-3)
- Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush, and then pursue me as you draw your bow (5.2.47-48)
- A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, and while it is so, none so dry or thirsty will deign to sip or touch one drop of it (5.2.146-49)
I started Insanity today. I am in pain but I feel pretty good.
I mixed the last page of the epilogue (read by the amazing Stephen Fry) with Leaving Hogwarts, changed the levels and unfortunately to make it fit, cut some bits out. But yes. This is what it sounds like.
