shakespeare
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LEAR: Who stock’d my servant? … O sides, you are too tough; Will you yet hold? How came my man i’ the stocks? CORNWALL: I set him there, sir: but his own disorders Deserved much less advancement. KING LEAR You! did you? REGAN I pray you, father, being weak, seem so. If, till the expiration Read more
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‘Good morrow, Benedick: Why, what’s the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?’ Much Ado about Nothing, Act V. Scene IV A few days ago I watched Alan Bennett’s Diaries, a film about Alan Bennett writing and reading his diaries. In the final scene we see Read more
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. April 23rd: St George’s Day and the Birthday of the Bard. We share George, who was a Syrian, with Portugal, Romania, Georgia, Malta and Gozo. It is a day to raise pints of ale in honour of True Read more
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