Do you believe what Shakespeare said............:?
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hamlet was insane, so it's hard to know if he really saw the ghosts or not. as nietzsche said: "always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness." maybe the insane see what the rest of us won't.
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The gravedigger! Quote from Hamlet: \n  Clown. What is he that builds stronger than either the mason,\nthe\n    shipwright, or the carpenter?\n  Other. The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand  \n    tenants.\n  Clown. I like thy wit well, in good faith. The gallows does\nwell.\n    But how does it well? It does well to those that do ill. Now,\n    thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the\n    church. Argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To't again,\ncome!\n  Other. Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a\n    carpenter?\n  Clown. Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.\n  Other. Marry, now I can tell!\n  Clown. To't.\n  Other. Mass, I cannot tell.\n\n                 Enter Hamlet and Horatio afar off.\n\n  Clown. Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass\nwill\n    not mend his pace with beating; and when you are ask'd this\n    question next, say 'a grave-maker.' The houses he makes lasts\n    till doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of\n    liquor.
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Rehearsing Shakespeare's play, aren't we ?\n- As is, it is very bad to swallow a word, or two, midway. And it is even worse to change the script, as you like it !\nBut then, you are only an amateur actor, young Mahmud, and so you are forgiven this faux pas !
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I absolutely love that quote! I knew exactly where it was from. \n\nSeems like it. I take the Bible and all of that with a large helping of salt, and create my own set of beliefs. And, lol, the bit about the 10 commandments, I couldn't believe it when I saw GC voice my thoughts so eloquently on tv!
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does it matter what history says????
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Shakespeare...he was a partier.
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Shakespeare\n\nHamlet
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That his family was once the ruler of Rome, but Julius had taken away his throne.  Also he believes more strongly in rights than in freedome.  \n\nHow valid?  up to you I guess.  I would say that it wasn't that valid in that he betrayed a friend that trusted him and he destroyed the meaning of friendship. Yet he still did it for the people so that all would have the natural rights demanded of them.
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who said he did??????
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of corse if you beleive!!!
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Oh yeah?...really?\nThat's what you think....wink
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I can only think of Juliet in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"!  Are you thinking fictional ones or real ones?  There are some in ancient myths...
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I just saw this version on the newly released DVD:\n\n"And the prophet said: 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day it was as one dead.' 'Old Arabian proverb.'"
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I love Sonnet 130!\n\nI like this site, too:\n\nhttp://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/130detail.html\n\nIt has the poem paraphrased and analyzed.\n\nMore information, including quotes from other writers is at:\nhttp://members.aol.com/danieledg1/sonnets.html\n\nI hope Shakespeare's mistress had a good sense of humor and that she waited around for the end of the sonnet.
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A bunch of books, plays, etc. from England are usually read and discussed in English literature.  You can pretty much guarantee that Shakespeare will be read.
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Oh please.....do you really beleive one didn't?.....
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I had an amazing english teacher who taught us Shakespeare.  He would make us read all the 'little parts' while he did the 'big parts' with this fantastic accent he made up depending on the role.  He really 'owned' the material and knew stories very well that he made a lasting impression on me and to this day I love Shakepeare.\n\nI think, though, that all the teachers who made lasting impressions on me had one thing in common - they all passionately loved the material they taugt, from history to math to english or art.  It was their love for the material that influenced me to learn more about it.  That kind of excitement for something is catchy.