#shakepeare

4 tipsy

"benvolio hates being the abstainer whilst i’m drunk. but whether it's from concern or jealousy… well, depends on how many fights i start!"

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?deny thy father and refuse thy name.

Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love

And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy

Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot nor arm nor face nor any other part belonging to a man. O be some other name.

Since apartheid ended in 1994, the early promise of the Mandela-led “rainbow nation” has been tarnished by corruption, continued economic inequality and further violence, which Kani believes has led later generations to forget his generation’s struggle. Hence his play, Kunene And The King, in which he plays an oncology nurse for a wealthy white actor — played by fellow South African Antony Sher — who plans to play King Lear but is dying of liver cancer.

I finished reading Henry IV 1 and watched the Hollow Crown version today

"From fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty's rose might never die,

But as the riper should be time decease,

His tender heir might bear his memory;

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,

Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,

Making a famine where abundance lies,

Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament

And only herald to the gaudy spring

Within thine own bud buriest thy content,

And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.

Pity the world, or else this glutton be,

To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee."