Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day

>>24518297 (OP)
France is a dog-hole

That I have worn so many winters out,
And know not now what name to call myself!
O that I were a mockery king of snow,

>>24518297 (OP)
Somebody post it you know you want to

>>24518297 (OP)
Away you Ethiope

>>24518297 (OP)
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
For Christian service and true chivalry,
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

>>24518297 (OP)
Can't say I have favorite lines, but my favorite plays are Measure For Measure, The Scot5tish Play, The Tempest, and Hamlet. All unusually good times to me as reading goes. Somehow I don't like A Midsummer Night's Dream, much as my imagination inclines to to the polytheistic or musical.

>Life is a tale told by an autist, full of shitposting and cancer, signifying memes

>>24518786
>life is a tale told by a man with no sense of atmosphere.

>>24518297 (OP)
My gf forced me to go to the theater with her to watch Macbeth and I fucking hated it. There were simply too many "Le epic" dialogues for me. After a while when the actors were speaking I started to picture their lines appearing in front of me as text with the reddit upvote downvote arrows next to them, and let me tell you, there were a lot of upvotes.

>>24518780
Based for appreciating Measure for Measure. IMO it's his greatest comedy. What allowed me to appreciate Midsummer Night's dream more was studying poetry a great deal and learning to appreciate the intricacies of its language and romantic descriptions.

All the worlds indeed a stage
We are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another’s audience outside the gilded cage

>>24518821
I've read it about 20 times, and never seen it in performance, not even on screen, but enjoyed it every time. There's something about how remote the general perspective is, despite how intimately we come to the Thane's perspective sometimes.