Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

di William Shakespeare

20 capitoli33mEnglish0

Informazioni sul libro

This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a man who seemed to know everything about human nature and as Orson Welles said ‘he speaks to everyone and we all claim him’. I know that it has been said that ‘it is impossible to be a great Shakespearian actor without an idiosyncratic and extraordinary voice’ and this may be so, but that does not preclude ordinary mortals from reading, hearing and enjoying Shakespeare. (Summary by Martin Clifton)

Capitoli (20)

1As You Like It (Act 2, Scene 7) : All the World’s a Stage

101

2Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 3) : To Thine Own Self Be True

3Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2) : What a Piece of Work Is Man

4Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1) : To Be or Not To Be

121

5Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 2) : Speak the Speech

131

6Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 2) : Bestrides the Narrow World

107

7Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : If You Have Tears Prepare To Shed Them Now

111

8Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : Friends, Romans, Countrymen

121

9Julius Caesar (Act 3, Scene 2) : Let Me Not Stir You Up

10Julius Caesar (Act 5, Scene 5) : This Was the Noblest Roman of Them All

11King Henry V (Act 3, Scene 1) : Once More Unto the Breach

115

12King Henry V (Act 4, Scene 3) : This Day is Called the Feast of Crispian

103

13King Richard III (Act 1, Scene 1) : Now is the Winter of Our Discontent

138

14Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7) : If It Were Done

107

15Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 1) : Is This a Dagger

126

16The Merchant of Venice (Act 1, Scene 3) : Many a Time and Oft

17The Merchant of Venice (Act 3, Scene 1) : If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed

18The Merchant of Venice (Act 4, Scene 1) : The Quality of Mercy

19Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) : What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks

20Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) : Romeo, Romeo

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