Thursday, August 2, 2007

Shakespearean mood

For some reason I miss reading Shakespeare as we did in school. Today especially I was in a mood to read Twelfth night, so ended up reading some parts online due to time constraint :(

The two verses which I will however never forget from Twelfth night are the opening lines by Duke Orsino as below:

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.

....and Malvolio's line:

" Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them"

Twelfth night, Macbeth, Romeo&Juliet, Hamlet and Othello are some of my favorites! I am yearning to see a play now!!!!!!!
:)

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