“Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,
And show the heavens more just.”
(“King Lear” 4.1)
🎨 Richard Westall “David Garrick as King Lear” (c 1815)
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Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, Jessie M. King des. Blue cover, white decoration of fairy with sun behind her head, gold lettering.
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🖼️ Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe, Alberto Martini. Candle lit with halo of light, melting wax, shadow.
‘Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head…
Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee and for myself no quiet find.’ ~ Sonnet XXVII.
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Painting of white lilies in a glass, cylindrical case with a bowl of mixed pink and white roses in front, both on a wooden table with beige background. 🖼️ Henri Fantin-Latour
‘From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim…
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose…
Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play’ ~ Sonnet 98 #BookWormSat #ShakespeareWeek
📚 #ShakespeareWeek Review 5: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Our final review is of These Violent Delights - a Romeo and Juliet retelling with rival gangs and enemies-to-lovers. What are your thoughts? ✨
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Did you know Shakespeare's 'Henry VI Part 2' was released before 'Henry VI Part 1'!
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Ophelia in a long grey dress is floating, drowning in the shallow river, a string of colourful flowers of blue, red and white clasped in her right hand. The riverbank is abundant and overhanging with long reeds, white flowers, grasses and plants.
There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.
Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies,
that’s for thoughts. . . .
There’s fennel for you, and columbines.
Hamlet, act 4, scene 5.
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“Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.”
(“King Henry VI, Part II” 3.2)
🎨 Edward Austin Abbey (1891)
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"The Demagogue," a painting by Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco. ca 1946 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Clemente_Orozco
'Tyrants' fears decrease not,
but grow faster than the years'
- Pericles, act 1, sc.2
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📚 #BookWormSat “If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.”
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1 🎭
With a final bow Puck reminds us it was all but a dream- where magic & mischief danced.
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Jacques and the wounded Stag by William Hodges
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“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
— As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7
From entrances to exits, we each play our part in life’s great story. Shakespeare reminds us that every role—no matter how small—shapes the play.
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"O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!
A brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creatures in her,
Dash'd all to pieces! "
(“Tempest”, 1.2)
🎨 John William Waterhouse “Miranda - The Tempest” (1916)
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Woman in red gown sitting and reading a sonnet next to a man bent over beside here. She holds her hand to her mouth. They sit beneath a tree on a stony, grassy hillside in the sunshine. Painting.
‘But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.’ ~ Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of #BookWormSat and our Bardish foray into #ShakespeareWeek
🖼️ The Sonnet, William Mulready, 1839.
C19th illustration of wren parents feeding and tending to young in nest nestled in branches, perched on branches, foliage and forget-me-nots.
‘(F)or the poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will fight, her young ones in her nest, against the owl.’ ~ Shakespeare,
Macbeth, Act IV, Sc 2.
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Hocus Pocus, 1993, Three witches, Sanderson sisters: Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), Winifred (Bette Midler), Mary (Kathy Najimy), riding brooms, wearing colorful 1600s style cloaks and dresses. Behind them are trees.
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❝ First Witch: When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch: When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun. ❞
(Act 1 Scene 1, Macbeth)
🎬 Hocus Pocus, 1993
Painting showing close up of a tulip with pink petals, with detailed inner pistil, stamen, etc. in greens, yellows, and white. Pale green leaves make up the left third of the composition.
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❝ I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. ❞
(Fairy, Act 2 Scene 1, A Midsummer Night's Dream)
🖼️ Pink Tulip, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1926
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❝ Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably. ❞
(Benedick, Act 5 Scene 2, Much Ado About Nothing)
🖼️ Ashes, Edvard Munch, 1895
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!"
(Macbeth, 5.5)
🎨 Rossetti "The Death of Lady Macbeth"(1875)
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Thomas Skelton, court jester at Muncaster Castle. He was known as Tom Fool and was responsible for the phrase “tomfoolery”. It's said he was the inspiration behind the joker in King Lear more: 'Folklore of the Lake District' by Stephen G. Rae https://folklorepress.co.uk/ #bookwormsat #shakespeareweek
Thomas Skelton, court jester at Muncaster Castle. He was known as Tom Fool and was responsible for the phrase “tomfoolery”. It's said he was the inspiration behind the joker in King Lear
more: 'Folklore of the Lake District' by Stephen G. Rae
folklorepress.co.uk
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'Macbeth' was cursed from the beginning, a coven of witches objected to the using of real incantations, so they put a curse on the play. In Scots lore the witches were fairies more: 'Folklore of Scotland' folkloreofscotland.com #ShakespeareWeek #BookWormSat art: Daniel Gardner
'Macbeth' was cursed from the beginning, a coven of witches objected to the using of real incantations, so they put a curse on the play. In Scots lore the witches were fairies.
more in: 'Folklore of Scotland'
folkloreofscotland.com
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art: Daniel Gardner
Adam Bell, known as the 'Robin Hood of the North' 🏹 Lived in Inglewood Forest and thought to be the 'Adam' in 'Much Ado About Nothing' more: Folklore of the Lake District bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookwormsat #shakespeareweek art: Richard Dadd
Adam Bell, known as the 'Robin Hood of the North' 🏹
Lived in Inglewood Forest and thought to be the 'Adam' in 'Much Ado About Nothing'
more: Folklore of the Lake District
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
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art: Richard Dadd
Winding Up the Week #464 bookjotter.com/2026/03/28/w... #Booklovers #AmReading #Books #BookReview #Reading #bookbloggers #ShakespeareWeek #LMMontgomery #WyrdAndWonder @sarahemsley.bsky.social @wyrdandwonder.bsky.social
David Suchet traveling on the Orient Express while reading Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express." In this screenshot he is looking up from the book he is holding with a very intense look on his face.
"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters."
Macbeth (A1, S5)
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"Titania sleeping in the moonlight protected by her fairies" - 19th century painting by John Simmons.
"Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a good grace."
A Midsummer Night's Dream (A5, S1)
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#ShakespeareWeek Review 4: Sycorax by Nydia Hetherington 📖
Our penultimate review of Shakespeare Week is of Sycorax - Hetherington’s imagination of the life of the nameless witch in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
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Today, #WorldTheatreDay, also marks the end of #ShakespeareWeek - double the reason to celebrate the Bard!
And enjoying his work doesn't have to be daunting. Just see our Microwave Shakespeare series👇
(Microwavable ready-meal versions of the original plays - that taste GOOD!)
