Puck’s final speech

From A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act V, Scene 1

If we shadows have offended, 
Think but this, and all is mended, 
That you have but slumber’d here 
While these visions did appear. 
And this weak and idle theme, 
No more yielding but a dream, 
Gentles, do not reprehend…

Nothing will come of Nothing…

King Lear, Act I, Scene 1

The humor of Polonius

I was watching Laurence Olivier’s film version of Hamlet yesterday, and began to reflect on how funny some of Polonius’s…

Richard’s soliloquy from Henry VI, Part 3

This one may not be quite as famous as the opening “Now is the winter of our discontent” soliloquy in Richard III, but it’s pretty darn good. Good enough for Laurence Olivier to borrow from it in his film version of Richard III…

The “fishmonger” scene: Hamlet & Polonius

I can’t believe I haven’t posted this one before, but this is certainly one of my other…

Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech

Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 4

Romeo & Juliet sonnet-based flirting

Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5

ROMEO 
[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two…

Another tasty Mark Antony speech

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, 
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! 
Thou art…

Macbeth- dagger soliloquy

Macbeth, Act II, Scene 1

Marc Antony’s famous speech, Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. (80)