Shakespeare...

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:13 pm

Noble patricians, patrons of my right,
Defend the justice of my cause with arms,
And, countrymen, my loving followers,
Plead my successive title with your swords:
I am his first-born son, that was the last 5
That wore the imperial diadem of Rome;
Then let my father's honours live in me,
Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.

in service,
mr smith

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:37 am

Are we supposed to identify the citation, or just give our favorites? Or both? Saturninus, Titus Andronicus. Act 1 Scene 1.

Let me have men about me that are fat, and sleek-headed men,
and such as sleep a-nights.
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He Thinks too much.
Such men are dangerous.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:54 am

Is there an Earl of Oxford thread?

blyslv · Post by **blyslv** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:59 am

I could kick Eddy de Vere's ass.

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 3:27 pm

"To Burn or Not to Burn...." (what was the question?) Jafe

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:53 pm

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ’t.

tis I,
yes tis I

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:26 am

Shakespear Camp..... Reenact scenes using audience members in the parts reading with laminated sides.

Can you say Romeo and Julliette?

You may heretoforth address me as KING RICHARD. KING OF ALL I SURVEY. GOING FORTH UNTO THE WORLD CONQURING ONE NATION AT A TIME. SPREADING MY KINGDOM TO THE FAR REACHES OF THE UNIVERSE! I WILL RULE THE VERY COSMIC FLUX THAT IS... the... errrr huh? Yeah two and could I get extra onions and mayo on that please?...........

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:45 am

I am glad I am so acquit of this tinder-box; his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskilful singer; he kept not time...

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 10:55 am

"O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
The fool hath planted in his memory
An army of good words; and I do know
A many fools, that stand in better place,
Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word
Defy the matter..."

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 9:17 pm

Today (in prep for BM) it was:

"A nut a nut my kingdom for a quarter inch nut."

gilmore · Post by **gilmore** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:23 am

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Pre & post burn, depending on the path you travel, you may be interested in visiting Ashland, OR. They have a highly rated theater group which is producing 5 Shakespeare plays this season. Will be heading there after burn to see;

Much Ado About Nothing

The Comedy of Errors

King Lear

Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI Parts 2 and 3

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Northwest
260 miles from Gerlach
290 from Reno

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:17 am

You could perform "The Tempest" in BRC and nobody'd even notice!
.........rich and strange..........mmmmmmmm........

Karma · Post by **Karma** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:36 am

To those who think, life is a comedy,
To those who feel, life is a tragedy.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:00 am

"......Is this the end of Zombie Shakespeare?"
-Zombie Shakespeare, Treehouse of Horror

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:07 am

This coming weekend (June 25th) my daughter opens in the Murphys Creek Theatre production of Midsummer's Night's Dream as Helena. She also plays Sylvia in the Two Gent's they're doing in repertory. Held at Sevenot Winery in Calaveras County... enjoyment all around...

Willy the Shake wrote:

The lunatic, the lover and the poet
are of imagination all compact

Sam

Ron · Post by **Ron** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:29 am

"Come wind, blow rack,
At least we'll die with harness on our back."

That's my fav. from the plays. We'll that and,

"This above all others, to thine own self be true."

The theme camp I'm with is planning on bringing 1700 square feet of live grass, under a shade structure, to the playa and I've been wondering if anyone actually would sit on the grass and read Shakespeare together. Friends of mine and I will get together for Bard Plays in the real world, where we all eat and read a play together, with folk taking and trading various roles. Something tells me it wouldn't actually happen on the playa but it sounds fun to me...

Ron

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:13 am

Ron,

I'm game. My son and I are virgins, both actors, and at least one or both of us has done a butt load of Shakespeare, Ives, Mamet, Wasserman, etc. I volunteer me... and will advise him about your gig. Let us know...

Also, I want to see how the grass handles the humidity, or rather, the lack of it... can grass actually mummify?

Sam

"To be, or not to... uh... how does that go?"

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:31 pm

Roll-out Grass on the Playa, sounds like a topic over in the Questions and Advice Forum, if you're serious about using real grass. I'm sure there have been many burners who did and probably can cut your headache index down at least by 75-80%.

I have seen all kinds of impromtu Shakespere on the Playa, and at Center camp, on the stage and just random in the among the crowds. Most were prolly SCA, I would think.

daringly so,
mr smith

technopatra · Post by **technopatra** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 3:23 am

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;
And yet methinks I have astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well,
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art
As truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert;
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.

Sonnet 14, for no reason other than I can't sleep[/i]

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:07 pm

Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And perspective it is best painter's art.
For through the painter must you see his skill,
To find where your true image pictured lies;
Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,
That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:
Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun
Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;
Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;
They draw but what they see, know not the heart.

Shakespeare...

Shakespeare...

Alas...

Shakespear.....

tricksy word

Shakespeare Pre & Post Burn

You're Grass So Green, Doth Offer A Pleasent Solice, Sir....

XXIV