On life and death:
“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now; yet it will come. The readiness is all.” (Act 5. Scene 2. Lines 217-220)
On Acting:
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o’erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold as’t were the mirror up to nature.” (Act 3. Scene 2. Lines 17-22)
On Fate:
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will–” (Act 5. Scene 2. Lines 10-11)
Works Cited:
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. The Collect Works of Shakespeare 4th Edition. David
Bevington, Ed. Longman. New York. 1997.
I love Shakespeare
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Shakespeare is the core of all writing.
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Yes, and many of our words and phrases came from him – 1 500 and 900, respectively, I believe.
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I am not sure of the number, but it is certainly in that range!
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Hamlet has got to be my favourite Shakespeare play of all time. Love that you picked some of the lesser known quotes.
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Thank you–it is all my favorite Shakespeare play–no, simply my favorite play.
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…hmm not quite fate as we might use, i think. A divinity… that shapes our end. An inevitability, that, yet it will come (like the form, movement, of all Will’s plays: a return from an improper or unnatural form. A theatrical display or illustration of causal emergence, though he wouldn’t have used such a verbal phrase.) The fault, after all… is not in our stars but…
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Thank you!
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Excellent quotes!
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome!
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