The Tempest - Entire Play | Folger Shakespeare Library Putting romance onstage, The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio. Prospero is exiled on an island, where his only compan...

Hello, readers of #HenryVI_2025 , #MerryWives_2025 & #MuchAdo_2025 :

After we finish Part 3 of King Henry VI, we will take a comedic break with The Tempest (on an island!)

How's 6/18 to start #TheTempest_2025 ? reply if you need more time to pick up a copy.

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“Strike up, pipers!”
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“Peace, I will stop your mouth.”
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Benedick
Do not you love me?

Beatrice
Why, no; no more than reason.
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Act V, s4 (l.74)

V.4 -- Say what you will about Branagh but damn he has a way with Shakespearean lines. They trip so commonly and true out of him as if he's simply speaking. No translation necessary. (Emma pretty wonderful too.) #muchado_2025 youtu.be/UvU9GbaMY40?...

L‘ enlèvement d'Europe Cratère vers -350 Louvre

BENEDICK

Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low,
And some such strange bull leaped your father's cow,
And got a calf in that same noble feat

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V,5 (48-50)

#MuchAdo_2025 Day 21, 2/21- Act V s.4
"Did I not tell you that she was innocent?"

Last day- thanks so much for reading together!! See y'all at #MerryWives_2025 on Feb. 24th!

I feel seen.

Prince:
Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?
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The crescent moon still in the sky — the day awakens — it brings the end of Shakespeare's #MuchAdo_2025

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I used to think of Much Ado About Nothing as one of Shakespeare’s lighter plays, but after this read, I feel that its handling of power, honour, and gender inequities is much darker.

I finished today as I'm indisposed for the next few days.
Thanks @christina500.bsky.social and all.

“Now unto thy bones good night!
Yearly will I do this rite.”
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"The wolves have preyed, and look, the gentle day
Before the wheels of Phoebus round about
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey."

Act V s.3 #MuchAdo_2025 Before dawn (preceding the chariot of the sun). #Humble Leonato

Hymen- Greek mythology god of marriage; name derives from the refrain of an ancient marriage song. Mentioned first by the 5th-century-BC lyric poet Pindar as the son of Apollo by one of the Muses: Calliope, Clio, Terpsichore (Alciphron), or Urania (Catullus). #MuchAdo_2025 #GreekMythology (1/2)

#MuchAdo_2025 Day 20, 2/20- Act V s.3

CLAUD. Is this the monument of Leonato?
LORD. It is, my lord.
CLAUD. [Reads the epitaph]
'Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies:
Death in guerdon of her wrongs
Gives her fame which never dies.

Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) Musée du Louvre

[BALTHASAR]
[Sings, accompanied by music]

Pardon, goddess of the night,
Those that slew thy virgin knight:
…

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V,3 (12-13)
William Shakespeare

Diane chasseresse

BENE. ... Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme, I have tried: I can find out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby'--an innocent rhyme: for 'scorn,' 'horn'--a hard rhyme: for 'school,' 'fool'--a babbling rhyme: very ominous endings. (1/2)

Act V s.2 #MuchAdo_2025 #Rhyme

BENE. Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth, it catches.
MAR. And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit but hurt not.
BENE. A most manly wit, Margaret..."

Act V s.2 #MuchAdo_2025

HENRY V. Once more unto the breach...
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips...

Act III s.1

Benedick
Suffer love,—a good epithet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Beatrice
In spite of your heart, I think. Alas, poor heart!
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Act V, s3 (55-57)

#MuchAdo_2025 Day 19, 2/19- Act V s.2
BENE. Pray, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
MARG. Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?

V.2 -- Worst ever. So bad it's almost good. Two guys in a dorm room play Ben and Bea. #muchado_2025 youtu.be/qEp1Kc0sUFM?...

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William Shakespeare

BENEDICK
“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be
buried in thy eyes”
V,2 (89-90)

❤️‍🔥

DON PEDRO
„She shall be buried with her face upwards.“
III,2 (61)

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“Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound’s mouth, it catches.”
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...Lord Lackbeard...
(V.1.196)

“Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb”
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“In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came to seek you both.”
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V.1 part 2 -- 💕💕Kennnnnnn💕💕 #Muchado_2025 youtu.be/pql98ZMyVzA?...

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Hello, dear Shakespeare friends- we'll start #MerryWives_2025 on Feb. 24 (3wks). The previous plan was to follow with HenryVI & Richard III. In light of current governmental catastrophe, how about another comedy or two? 2 votes for More Comedies so far- pls reply or message me, thanks!