Macbeth, Act II, Scene 1
Having recently watched an excellent production of Much Ado About Nothing on PBS’s Great Performances, I thought I’d share…
I was watching Laurence Olivier’s film version of Hamlet yesterday, and began to reflect on how funny some of Polonius’s…
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,
I’ve been listening to some recordings of Romeo & Juliet lately, and I’ve found this passage intriguing. Romeo tries…
It’s been awhile since I posted a passage here at Bites of Bard. So today I thought I’d post one of…
Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things…
My favorite soliloquy in all of Shakespeare is not the most famous one. Most people would…
This one is longer than what I usually post, but we recently read The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare Allowed! Although I didn’t really care for the play overall, scenes like the one below are rather remarkable for their almost endless…