Thursday, May 17, 2018

                                                               Now I want 
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.

-Prospero
                                   
The Tempest                                                Epilogue, Line 15

This is Prospero talking at the end of The Tempest. It's the epilogue where he comes out to directly address the audience. There's an epilogue at the end of a half dozen or so of Will's plays. The only other one I'm familiar with is Rosalind talking at the end of As You Like It. And she and Prospero are saying pretty much the same thing: I hope you liked the show!



 

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

And then I will her charmed eye release
From monster's view, and all things shall be peace

-Oberon

                                   
A Midsummer Night's Dream          Act III, Scene ii, Line 377

This is Oberon talking to Puck about the fact that he's going to take the spell off of his wife so that she's no longer in love with Bottom who currently has a donkey head. That sounds a bit weird, doesn't it. Well, I've always maintained that this play is a bit goofy and that's the main reason I never really liked it that much. And you'd think that for a goofy guy like me that I'd just love this goofy play. So go figure.



 I was going to post a picture of Goofy and me from my recent Disney trip, but I couldn't get access to that pic, so instead you get a pic of my peeps at Disney on the teacup ride. No Goofy, but a slightly goofy pic.

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