Certainly one of the great things about Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is the magnificent wit of its…
It’s been awhile since I posted a passage here at Bites of Bard. So today I thought I’d post one of…
I recently participated in a staged reading of Timon of Athens, a play with which I had been quite…
This is horrifying, but awesome…from Titus Andronicus’s speech to Chiron and Demetrius, before he slices their throats and bakes them into pies to feed to their mother!
This scene between Hamlet and his father’s Ghost is a beautiful piece of writing. Some scholars believe Shakespeare may have played the Ghost himself. (I don’t think there’s any actual proof of that, but it’s interesting to consider, isn’t it?)
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:And, like the baseless fabric of…
Macbeth, Act II, Scene 1
Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1 (First Folio, 1623)
Actus Primus. Scœna Prima.
Enter Richard Duke of Gloster, solus.
NOw is the Winter of our Discontent,