"""This was the most unkindest cut of ail"" is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?"
"""The Final Cut"" and ""The Hero's Return"", had been set aside for ""Spare Bricks"", and although Pink Floyd had often reused older material, Gilmour felt the songs were not good enough for a new album. He wanted to write new material, but Waters remained doubtful as Gilmour had lately contributed little to the band's repertoire. Gilmour said: The album's working title was changed to ""The Final Cut"", a reference to William Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar"": ""This was the most unkindest cut of all"". ""When the Tigers Broke Free"" was issued as a single on 26 July 1982, with ""Bring the Boys"
"in its day, over the course of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries it became perhaps Shakespeare's most maligned play, and it was only in the latter half of the 20th century that this pattern of denigration showed any signs of subsiding. One of the earliest, and one of the most famous critical disparagements of the play occurred in 1687, in the introduction to Edward Ravenscroft's theatrical adaptation, ""Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia. A Tragedy, Alter'd from Mr. Shakespeare's Works"". Speaking of the original play, Ravenscroft wrote, ""'tis the most incorrect and indigested piece in all his works."
"one of Shakespeare's ""most pleasing"" plays. In the later part of the 18th and through the 19th century, criticism centred on debates over the moral message of the play. Actor and playwright David Garrick's 1748 adaptation excluded Rosaline: Romeo abandoning her for Juliet was seen as fickle and reckless. Critics such as Charles Dibdin argued that Rosaline had been purposely included in the play to show how reckless the hero was and that this was the reason for his tragic end. Others argued that Friar Laurence might be Shakespeare's spokesman in his warnings against undue haste. With the advent of"
"""Love's Labour's Won"" is considered by some to be a lost sequel. ""Love’s Labour’s Lost"" features the longest scene in all of Shakespeare’s plays (5.2), which, depending upon formatting and editorial decisions, ranges from around 920 lines to just over 1000 lines. The First Folio records the scene at 942 lines. The play also features the single longest word in all of Shakespeare's plays: ""honorificabilitudinitatibus"", spoken by Costard at 5.1.30. The speech given by Berowne at 4.3.284–361 is potentially the longest in all of Shakespeare's plays, depending on editorial choices. Shakespeare critic and editor Edward Capell has pointed out that"
"such scholar was Jan Kott. Speaking of its apparent gratuitous violence, Kott argued that ""Titus Andronicus"" is by no means the most brutal of Shakespeare's plays. More people die in ""Richard III"". ""King Lear"" is a much more cruel play. In the whole Shakespearean repertory I can find no scene so revolting as Cordelia's death. In reading, the cruelties of ""Titus"" can seem ridiculous. But I have seen it on the stage and found it a moving experience. Why? In watching ""Titus Andronicus"" we come to understand – perhaps more than by looking at any other Shakespeare play – the"
"controversy over whether this play was genuinely Shakespeare's. He concludes that the verse shows that it certainly was, a judgement borne out by later critics. Hazlitt remarks that ""Richard II"", less well known than ""Richard III"", is the finer play. Worth noting is the exchange of places between the King and Bolingbroke, the usurping king—""The steps by which Bolingbroke mounts the throne are those by which Richard sinks into the grave""— and he compares the manner and politics of the age with those of his own. Among various poetical passages, he finds the speech of John of Gaunt in praise"
"opening (where the producers were sued over the show's content) saying, ""Jupiter will be in opposition to naughty Saturn, and the show opens the very day of the sun's eclipse. Terrible."" But there was no astrologically safe time in the near future. ""Hair"" makes many references to Shakespeare's plays, especially ""Romeo and Juliet"" and ""Hamlet"", and, at times, takes lyrical material directly from Shakespeare. For example, the lyrics to the song ""What a Piece of Work Is Man"" are from ""Hamlet"" (II: scene 2) and portions of ""Flesh Failures"" (""the rest is silence"") are from Hamlet's final lines. In ""Flesh"
"believed that Shakespeare in his retirement was revising his oeuvre ""for definitive publication"". The ""apprentice plays"" which had been reworked were naturally omitted from the Folio. Sams also rejected 20th-century orthodoxy on Shakespeare's collaboration: with the exception of ""Sir Thomas More"", ""Two Noble Kinsmen"" and ""Henry VIII"", the plays were solely his, though many were only partly revised. By Sams' authorship- and dating-arguments, Shakespeare wrote not only the earliest ""modern"" chronicle play, ""The Troublesome Reign"", c.1588, but also ""the earliest known modern comedy and tragedy"", ""A Shrew"" and the Ur-""Hamlet"" ( = the 1603 Quarto). Sams also argued, more briefly,"
"Peter Quince Peter Quince is a character in William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He is one of the six mechanicals of Athens who perform the play which Quince himself authored, ""The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe"" for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding. Titania's Fairies also watch from a distance: Moth, Peaseblossom, Cobweb and Mustardseed. His name is derived from ""quines"" or ""quoins"", which are wooden wedges used by carpenters. Quince's amateurish playwriting is usually taken to be a parody of the popular mystery plays of the pre-Elizabethan era,"
"play contains one of the most famous Shakespearean stage directions: ""Exit, pursued by a bear"", presaging the offstage death of Antigonus. It is not known whether Shakespeare used a real bear from the London bear-pits, or an actor in bear costume. The Royal Shakespeare Company, in one production of this play, used a large sheet of silk which moved and created shapes, to symbolise both the bear and the gale in which Antigonus is travelling. One comic moment in the play deals with a servant not realising that poetry featuring references to dildos is vulgar, presumably from not knowing what"
"It is Shakespeare's bloodiest and most violent work, and traditionally was one of his least respected plays; although it was extremely popular in its day, by the later 17th century it had fallen out of favour. In the Victorian era, it was disapproved of primarily because of what was considered to be a distasteful use of graphic violence, but from around the middle of the 20th century its reputation began to improve. The play begins shortly after the death of the Roman emperor, with his two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, squabbling over who will succeed him. Their conflict seems set"
"pun; when Claudius addresses him as ""my cousin Hamlet, and my son"", Hamlet says as an aside: ""A little more than kin, and less than kind."" An unusual rhetorical device, hendiadys, appears in several places in the play. Examples are found in Ophelia's speech at the end of the nunnery scene: ""Th""'expectancy and rose"" of the fair state"" and ""And I, of ladies most ""deject and wretched"""". Many scholars have found it odd that Shakespeare would, seemingly arbitrarily, use this rhetorical form throughout the play. One explanation may be that ""Hamlet"" was written later in Shakespeare's life, when he was"
"and topics. Gildon thought that Shakespeare drew inspiration from the works of Ovid and Virgil, and that he could read them in the original Latin and not in later translations. James Halliwell-Phillipps, writing in the 1840s, found that there were many inconsistencies in the play, but considered it the most beautiful poetical drama ever written. Henry Austin Clapp, writing in 1885, commented on the inconsistency of the time depicted in the play, as it should take place in four days and nights and seems to last less than two, and felt that this added to the unrealistic quality of the"
"is not generally accepted as having been written by Shakespeare, but it is considered to be perhaps partially written by Shakespeare by a number of scholars, including Edward Capell, Eliot Slater, Eric Sams, Giorgio Melchiori, Brian Vickers, and others. The play, printed in 1596, contains lines that also appear in Shakespeare’s sonnets: ""Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds” occurs in sonnet 94 and ""scarlet ornaments” occurs in sonnet 142. The same scene of the play that contains those quotations, is a comic scene that features and spoofs a poet attempting to compose a love poem at the behest"
"much, but think the more"" (4.1.85) and ""Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter:/I stay not for love of Edward but the crown"" (141.124–125); Warwick's ""O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come"" (5.1.18); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry (ll.61–93) and Richard's ""To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master/And cried 'All hail', whenas he meant all harm"" (5.7.33–34). The play also featured in ITV's ""Will Shakespeare"", a 1978 six-part (heavily fictionalised) biopic of Shakespeare (Tim Curry), written by John Mortimer. Episode one, ""Dead Shepherd"", focuses on Shakespeare's apprenticeship to"
"is distinguished by ""pedantic precept"" and ""idiosyncratic diversion"". Furthermore, the play is full of epigrams and paradoxes. Max Beerbohm described it as littered with ""chiselled apophthegms—witticisms unrelated to action or character"", of which he found half a dozen to be of the highest order. Lady Bracknell's line, ""A handbag?"", has been called one of the most malleable in English drama, lending itself to interpretations ranging from incredulous or scandalised to baffled. Edith Evans, both on stage and in the 1952 film, delivered the line loudly in a mixture of horror, incredulity and condescension. Stockard Channing, in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin"
"Shakespeare Apocrypha. At the end of the act, the characters realise that they forgot to perform ""Coriolanus"" which Adam refuses to do due the vulgarity of the title, and ""Hamlet"", Shakespeare's greatest work. Adam becomes nervous and petulant about performing such a famous and difficult play, so he runs out of the theatre with Austin chasing him. Reed is left alone to improvise acts such as playing the ""William Tell"" Overture on his larynx and eating fire before calling for intermission. After the intermission, Austin and Adam return, saving Reed from having to cover the sonnets by writing them down"
"funnier than unhappiness … it's the most comical thing in the world"". Esslin cites William Shakespeare as an influence on this aspect of the ""Absurd drama."" Shakespeare's influence is acknowledged directly in the titles of Ionesco's ""Macbett"" and Stoppard's ""Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"". Friedrich Dürrenmatt says in his essay ""Problems of the Theatre"", ""Comedy alone is suitable for us … But the tragic is still possible even if pure tragedy is not. We can achieve the tragic out of comedy. We can bring it forth as a frightening moment, as an abyss that opens suddenly; indeed, many of Shakespeare's"
"it is badly rehearsed: <poem> I have heard it over, And it is nothing, nothing in the world, Unless you can find sport in their [The Mechanicals'] intents, Extremely stretched, & conned [learnt] with cruel pain, To do you service. </poem> Theseus, eager to please his fiancee, Hippolyta, and the rest of his court, chooses ""Pyramus and Thisbe"" despite Philostrate's efforts. Because of its amateurishness, the play turns out to be humorous. Shakespeare is known for borrowing plots and characters from other stories, but the source of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" has proved difficult to trace. There is no clear"
"'bad quarto' was ""reconstructed from memory by some of the actors is now under attack. Alternative theories are that some or all of 'the bad quartos' are early versions by Shakespeare or abbreviations made either for Shakespeare's company or for other companies."" In any event, its appearance in early 1597 makes 1596 the latest possible date for the play's composition. The superior Q2 called the play ""The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet"". It was printed in 1599 by Thomas Creede and published by Cuthbert Burby. Q2 is about 800 lines longer than Q1. Its title page"
"of people in love. The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom ""the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon"" has been attributed. ""Two Gentlemen"" is often regarded as one of Shakespeare's weakest plays. It has the smallest named cast of any play by Shakespeare. As the play begins, Valentine is preparing to leave Verona for Milan so as to broaden his horizons. He begs his best friend, Proteus, to come with him, but Proteus is in love with Julia, and refuses to leave. Disappointed,"
"It."" The middle grouping of Shakespeare's plays begins in 1599 with ""Julius Caesar."" For the next few years, Shakespeare would produce his most famous dramas, including ""Macbeth,"" ""Hamlet,"" and ""King Lear."" The plays during this period are in many ways the darkest of Shakespeare's career and address issues such as betrayal, murder, lust, power and egoism. The final grouping of plays, called Shakespeare's late romances, include ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"", ""Cymbeline"", ""The Winter's Tale"" and ""The Tempest"". The romances are so called because they bear similarities to medieval romance literature. Among the features of these plays are a redemptive plotline"
"The Disobedient Child The Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude written c.1560 by Thomas Ingelend (an author who is known only as a ""late student of Cambridge"", as described on the first edition's title-page) and first performed in a Tudor hall. This play contains the famous line: ""None is so deaf as who will not hear."" It deals with the subject of the proper disciplinary treatment of children, raising the threat of the evil of those raised without strict discipline. It portrays a young man who is eager to marry despite his father's objections, and the unhappiness of his"
"he killed was Emma's grandfather. Emilie de Ravin is credited but does not appear in this episode. The episode's title is a phrase from William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"", where the Ghost of Prince Hamlet's father comments about his own death, saying ""Murder most foul as in the best it is: But this most foul, strange and unnatural."" Murder Most Foul (Once Upon a Time) ""Murder Most Foul"" is the twelfth episode of the sixth season of the American fantasy drama series ""Once Upon a Time"", which aired on March 12, 2017. In this episode, The origins of the mystery surrounding"
"the plays, but seldom quoted the original text. Though ""The Family Shakespeare"" was considered a negative example of censorship by the literary establishment and its commitment to the ""authentic"" Shakespeare, the Bowdlers' expurgated editions made it more acceptable to teach Shakespeare to wider and younger audiences. As said by the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, ""More nauseous and more foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of Bowdler. No man ever did better service to Shakespeare than the man who made it possible to put him into the hands of intelligent and"
"alone, that of 1586-87, five different acting troupes visited Stratford. By 1592 Shakespeare was a player/playwright in London, and he had enough of a reputation for Robert Greene to denounce him in the posthumous ""Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance"" as ""an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his ""Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde"", supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey."" (The italicized line parodies"
"his plays. Shakespeare wrote a three-part play about Henry VI, relying heavily on Hall's chronicle as a source. His vision of the Battle of Towton (""Henry VI"", Part 3, Act 2, Scene 5), touted as the ""bloodiest"" engagement in the Wars of the Roses, became a set piece about the ""terror of civil war, a ""national"" terror that is essentially ""familial"""". Historian Bertram Wolffe said it was thanks to Shakespeare's dramatisation of the battle that the weak and ineffectual Henry was at least remembered by English society, albeit for his pining to have been born a shepherd rather than a"
"and Sir Clamydes"" (printed 1599) has been attributed to Peele, but on insufficient grounds. Other plays attributed to Peele include ""Jack Straw"" (ca. 1587), ""The Wisdom of Dr. Doddypoll"" (printed 1600), ""The Maid's Metamorphosis"" (printed 1600), and ""Wily Beguiled"" (printed 1606) — though the scholarly consensus has judged these attributions to be insufficiently supported by evidence. Indeed, individual scholars have repeatedly resorted to Peele in their attempts to grapple with Elizabethan plays of uncertain authorship. Plays that have been assigned to (or blamed on) Peele include ""Locrine"", ""The Troublesome Reign of King John,"" and Parts 1 and 2 of Shakespeare's"
"and the ancient Greek poet Arion, who arrives astride a dolphin. A performance of the ""summer night"" scene from ""The Merchant of Venice"" is given, and then the Queen is sung lovingly to sleep. The ""Merchant of Venice"" scene is anachronistic, since Shakespeare was a young boy in 1575, but Chorley notes in his preface that Scott had also anachronistically used Shakespeare material. Chorley's effort was ridiculed as ""trivial"". In addition, Chorley faced much criticism over a misquote of ""The Merchant of Venice"" in No. 7, ""Scene from ""The Merchant of Venice"""". Chorley's line reads: ""Still quiring to the young-eyed"
"seduce another woman. She tells The Lady not to trust The Man, as he is a mere actor. She then recognises that The Lady is Queen Elizabeth. The Man reveals that he is William Shakespeare. The Queen demands that he should apologise to her, but Shakespeare insists that his family is more respectable than hers, and that she only has her job by accident of birth. The Dark Lady is shocked by Shakespeare's frankness, but the queen forgives him. Shakespeare complains that his worst plays, ""As You Like It"" and ""Much Ado About Nothing"", are the most popular, but is"
"some of Henry's harsher traits as Shakespeare wrote them – such as his remorseless beheading of the three Southampton Plot traitors: Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge; Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham; and Sir Thomas Grey; his threat to unleash his troops to rape and pillage Harfleur if the city refused to surrender; the cutting of the throats of French prisoners during the battle at Agincourt; as well as his refusal to stop the hanging of his old friend Bardolph for looting. The melancholy reference at the end of the play to how England under Henry VI"
"because ""Finnegans Wake"", while widely recognized as a masterpiece, was also widely dismissed as unintelligible--""the greatest book that nobody's ever read""; and because they had recognized in ""The Skin of Our Teeth"" (1942), the popular play by Thornton Wilder, an appropriation from Joyce's novel not only of themes but of plot and language as well. ""A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake"" was first published by Harcourt Brace in 1944. A second edition was published by Viking Press in 1968. An unauthorized edition published by Buccaneer Books in 1993 was withdrawn when the Joseph Campbell Foundation complained of copyright infringement. A"
"Hamlet The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlet's father, King Hamlet. Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow. ""Hamlet"" is Shakespeare's longest play, and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of ""seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others""."