Shakespeare
Complete Works of William Shakespeare - What I've read (not reviewed.
Submitted by dashforcover on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 23:26- Comedy
- All's Well That Ends Well
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love's Labours Lost
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Twelfth Night
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- The Winter's Tale
- History
- Henry IV, part 1
- Henry IV, part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, part 1
- Henry VI, part 2
- Henry VI, part 3
- Henry VIII
- King John
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Tragedy
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Cori
Bertie's Complete Paraphrases of Shakespeare - Now Available Free!
Submitted by bertie on Fri, 11/11/2005 - 06:02The set of Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare that I have posted here at Listology is only a sample of what is available.
Many moons ago, I paraphrased 23 complete plays of The Bard's.
"Should have got a life instead" you may say, but it was great fun doing it, believe me.
I have recently uploaded all of my Shakespeare paraphrases - all 23 plays - to my own pages at Yahoo, using the 'Briefcase' facility they offer.
I can give public access, but I don't wish to do that.
Insulted? You think you've been insulted?
Submitted by bertie on Tue, 11/08/2005 - 04:59The following string of insults, surely one of the funniest in all literature, occurs in Shakespeare's King Lear Act II, Scene 2.
A glossary of terms comes after.
KENT: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; a one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and
bertie and The Bard
Submitted by bertie on Sat, 10/22/2005 - 09:03Those of you who know me probably know that I have posted several Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare here at Listology.
What you may not know is that I have, many moons ago, paraphrased 23 complete plays of The Bard's.
"Should have got a life instead" you may say, but it was great fun doing it, believe me.
I have recently uploaded all of my Shakespeare paraphrases - all 23 plays - to my own pages at Yahoo, using the 'Briefcase' facility they offer.
I can give public access, but I don't wish to do that.
Bertie's Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4 excerpt (Sir Andrew challenges Viola)
Submitted by bertie on Sun, 09/12/2004 - 06:58[Setting: the garden of the house of Olivia, a widowed countess in the country of Illyria.]
[Sir Toby Belch, Olivia's uncle, has encouraged the foolish Sir Andrew Ague-cheek to think he might succesfully woo and win Olivia. But Olivia is in love with Viola, a girl who is posing as a man and is being employed by Duke Orsino as a messenger in his own attempt to woo Olivia. Sir Toby is being aided in his mischief by the equally mischievous Fabian and Maria, servants in Olivia's household.
Bertie's Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 4 (The Murder of Polonius)
Submitted by bertie on Sat, 09/11/2004 - 02:36[Setting: Queen Gertrude's private room in Elsinore Castle, Denmark.]
[Enter Queen Gertrude and Polonius, counsellor to the throne of Denmark.]
POLONIUS: He will come straight-away.
: See you lay into him; tell him his pranks have been too extreme to bear, and that Your Grace has screened and stood between much heat and him.
: I'll silence myself here.
: Please be emphatic.
[Note: they are expecting Prince Hamlet, who in the previous scene has virtually accused King Claudius, who is both his uncle and his mother Gertrude's new husband, of murdering Hamlet's father (al
Bertie's Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare: Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3 (The Saint Crispin's Day Speech)
Submitted by bertie on Thu, 03/21/2002 - 06:04This scene takes place just before the Battle of Agincourt, at which a depleted English army, led by King Henry the Fifth, defeated a greatly superior force of French. Most of the English were on foot, and many of the French were armored knights on horseback. The English won largely because of their secret weapon, the longbow, which was powerful enough to penetrate armour at some distance.
Bertie's Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1 (The Graveyard Scene)
Submitted by bertie on Wed, 03/20/2002 - 05:41[Setting: the graveyard at Elsinore Castle in Denmark]
[Enter two grave-diggers]
DIGGER 1: Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she wilfully
seeks her own salvation?
DIGGER 2: I tell you she is, therefore make her grave straight.
: The coroner has sat on her [case], and finds it Christian
burial.
[Note: they are talking about Ophelia, who has gone mad and drowned after Hamlet killed her father (mistaking him for King Claudius, who killed Hamlet's father)]
DIGGER 1: How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own
defence?
DIGGER 2: Wel
Bertie's Paraphrases of Famous Scenes from Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2 (Mark Antony's Speech at Caesar's Funeral)
Submitted by bertie on Mon, 03/18/2002 - 04:11This scene takes place in the Forum, Rome's market and public meeting
place. The characters are Brutus, Cassius, Mark Antony, and several citizens of Rome. Julius Caesar has just been assassinated in the Capitol by a group of conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius. They killed him because they feared he was about to use his great popularity to make himself permanent dictator and end the Roman Republic.
[Enter Brutus and Cassius, and a crowd of citizens.]
CITIZENS [shouting] We will be satisfied!
