Though she but little she is fierce. #MSND #shakespearesunday #pursuitOfJade #FabChangyu
Theatre Sky
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This is a feed for all the Theatre and Shakespeare fans on bluesky. We encourage you to tag your skeets with #TheatreSky (general theatre skeets) #TheatreThursday (Your favourite stage memories every Thursday) and #ShakespeareSunday (follow @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social for the weekly theme!)
Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. (Knock.) Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i’ th’ name of Beelzebub? Macbeth (2.3) #ShakespeareSunday
" shall we dance," - Love's Labour's Lost (A5,S2) #ShakespeareSunday
"I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop" CoE 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday Shakespeare's genius: a person's life summarized in two lines.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust, than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. 2 Henry IV #ShakespeareSunday
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 2 Henry VI #ShakespeareSunday
"Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts." —TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA #ShakespeareSunday (Jeremy Northam & Jennifer Ehle in #Possession)
I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness H4 1 1:2 #ShakespeareSunday
“O this learning, what a thing it is!” ~ The Taming of the Shrew (A1,S2). #ShakespeareSunday #Peanuts
"And though she be but little, she is fierce." —A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM #ShakespeareSunday (Hermione in #HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets)
“Ring out the bells aloud throughout the town.” ~ Henry VI Pt.1 (A1,S6). #ShakespeareSunday #FlicksOfMyYears
“You are but newly planted in your throne.” ~ Titus Andronicus (A1,S1). #ShakespeareSunday #FlicksOfMyYears
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." —TWELFTH NIGHT #ShakespeareSunday (Andrew Scott as Moriarty in #Sherlock)
"...To do offensive feats with all the speed, Like humble lions crouching in the brawls..." —KING JOHN #ShakespeareSunday (meme my own: #SlavaUkraini)
And tell the pleasant Prince this mock of his Hath turned his balls to gun-stones. Henry V #ShakespeareSunday
We would not seek a battle as we are, Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it. Henry V #ShakespeareSunday
"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." —MEASURE FOR MEASURE #ShakespeareSunday (concept art for "Jack the Giant Slayer" by Justin Sweet)
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" - Macbeth (A2,S1) #ShakespeareSunday
"Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." —ROMEO & JULIET #ShakespeareSunday (Hailee Steinfeld & Douglas Booth in Carlo Carlei's 2013 movie #RomeoAndJuliet)
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: Merchant of Venice 4.1 #ShakespeareSunday
"And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back..." —THE TEMPEST #ShakespeareSunday (James McAvoy & Keira Knightley in #Atonement)
" What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it From action and adventure?" - Cymbeline (A4,S4) #ShakespeareSunday
"a harmless necessary cat..." —THE MERCHANT OF VENICE #ShakespeareSunday
"These violent delights have violent ends ... " ~ Romeo and Juliet (A2,S6). #ShakespeareSunday #DCcomics
"I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends." — RICHARD II #ShakespeareSunday (Frodo, Sam, Merry & Pippin #LOTR)
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin" —TROILUS & CRESSIDA #ShakespeareSunday #Disney #SleepingBeauty
‘That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much.’ Henry IV I 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday