A weekend of Shakespeare
Friday, August 10: Seattle Shakespeare Company's Twelfth Night
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| The Duke Orsino and Viola/Cesario Photo credit: Seattle Shakespeare Company |
A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you everyday.
(5.1.405-408)
Saturday, August 11: Island Shakespeare Festival's A Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Titania and Bottom Photo Credit: Island Shakespeare Festival |
I have have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,
past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but
an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought
I was--there is no man can tell what. Methought I was--and
methought I had--but man is but a patched fool if he will offer
to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard,
the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste,
his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was.
(4.1.203-212)
Sunday, August 12: reading Coriolanus
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| Photo Source: Film Filia |
Oh, mother, mother!
What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,
The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
They laugh at. Oh, my mother, mother! Oh!
But for your son--believe it, oh, believe it!0
Most dangerously you have with him prevailed,
If not most mortal to him. But let it come.--
Aufidius, thought I cannot make true wars,
I'll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius,
Were you in my stead, would you have heard
A mother less? Or granted less, Aufidius?
(5.3.182-193)
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