h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Agreed.

It's about team spirit rather than war, isn't it? You could apply it to a rugby match, or a board room battle or a protest.

Sonnet #18

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

I had forgotten that they quoted it in The undiscovered country (itself a quote from Shakespeare if I'm right). Course Star trek had borrowed from the bard before. Conscious of the king for example in which they staged part of a performance of Hamlet. Many others have I'm sure borrowed from him for inspiration and/or titles over the yrs too.

Great thread this one , keep em coming .

Nice to see the St Crispin's Day speech here (Post 40). I was once drafted in to play Henry V in an Am Dram production at very short notice and had to learn the lines quickly. One night, I almost forgot which Saint's Day it was...

"This day is called the feast of... ... ... ... Crispian"

On the subject of Am Dram, I have a soft spot for the Rude Mechanicals' performance of 'Pyramus and Thisbe' at the end of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. I always feel for poor Moonshine, who gets very frustrated when the audience keep making sarky comments and won't let him get his first line out:

"All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the
lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this
thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog."
V.i.250-252

My daughter, yesterday, the day she got her first point shoes ( a big day in the life of any dancer!) was delighted to find the following in her school English text, where they'd been told to find a quote and illustrate it...


Romeo: Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead…"(I iv 13-5)


Her English teacher was astounded at how quiet she could be

Mine is Bottoms Dream from Midsummer's Night.

~jwf~

I recited the Feast of Crispian speech at our school speech day in about 1985 ...

Mol

I studied Lear, and that insult to the cur Oswald is magnificant. I must read more Shakespeare.

Here's another speech, performed by my mother. http://boxstr.com/files/818394_cu9nq/julius_caesar.mp3

TRiG.

You know what joy this is to me? I keep getting 'oh I'd forgotten that bit. That bit's good!' Mr Shakespeare just understood people. Very few other writers, especially from that era, managed that. That's how he manipulates us so well with his lovely speeches and manages to construct characters who aren't just vehicles for so many beautiful words.

O! how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away.

(Proteus, 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona')

Not my *favourite* but pretty damn good.

This one is from a collection of comic strips featuring "Opus", written by Berkeley Breathed:

"From deep within our secret soul
Do demons dwell and take their toll."

I was not able to determine which play after some Googling - anybody know?

Nothing on http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/search/search-advanced.php

Perhaps it's a missquote? That site found everything else I tried on it.

It doesn't really sound a lot like Shakespeare to me - could it be something more recent? It strikes me more like William Blake than WS.

Everything except wot woz misstakenly missspelt .

Google finds a few instances, but none of them attribute it to a specific work. They just state it as being Shakespeare.

It's a touch Rupert Bear, but I seem to remember the occasional Rupert Bear in Shakespeare... maybe that impression comes from school plays though.

"They just state it as being Shakespeare."

Curiouser and curiouser ...

I wonder if the comic strips were paraphrasing his lines?

But if Google is finding it exactly ...

I don't think paraphrasing is the problem.

I thought maybe the people google is finding were quoting an already paraphrased quote, because it is curious that phrase comes up as many times as it does.

Of course the online Shakespeare may not be complete.