Theatre Classes with Dave Alan Thomas

I've been getting behind with my school year starting. So, I'll try to make up for it with posts having several days worth of Shakespearean quotes of the day:

SQOTD for JULY 31:
"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!"
Hamlet, Act 1, Sc. 5

SQOTD for AUGUST 1:
"Trifles, light as air,
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ."
Othello, Act 3, Sc. 3

SQOTD for AUGUST 2:
"My crown is call'd content;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy."
King Henry VI, Pt. 3. Act 3, Sc. 1

SQOTD for AUGUST 3:
"Not yet old enough for a man, not young enough for a boy...as a codling when 'tis almost an apple."
Twelfth Night, Act 1, Sc. 5

SQOTD for AUGUST 4:
"Take that: and He that doth the taverns feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age!"
As You Like It, Act 2, Sc. 3

SQOTD for AUGUST 5:
"Bid them wash their faces
And keep their teeth clean."
Coriolanus, Act 2, Sc. 3

SQOTD for AUGUST 6:
"O! What men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!"
Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Sc. 1

Sorry, I got behind with work! Here are the last three days:
July 30th's
SQOTD:
ULYSSES
’Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait.
He rises on the toe; that spirit of his
In aspiration lifts him from the earth."
Troilus and Cressida

July 31st:
Albany
“All friends shall taste
The wages of their virtue, and all foes
The cup of their deserving”
King Lear, (V. III. 301–303)

AUGUST 1st:
HOTSPUR
"O, he is as tedious
As a tired horse, a railing wife,
Worse than a smoky house"
Henry IV, Part 1, Act 3, Sc. 1

SQOTD:
"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still."
Sonnet 104
Yr. 1609

SQOTD:
ANTONIO:
"Experience is by industry achieved
And perfected by the swift course of time."
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1, Sc. 3
written between 1592-94

SQOTD:
ROMEO:
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs —
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears."
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Sc. 1
Yr. 1597

SQOTD: (July 26th)
PERICLES
"Time is the king of men;
He's both their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave."
Pericles, Act 2, Sc. 3
Yr. 1608

SQOTD: (for July 25th)
LEAR:
"When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools."
King Lear, Act 4, Sc. 6
Yr. 1606

SQOTD: (July 24)
MARCIUS:
"He that depends
Upon your favours swims with fins of lead,
And hews down oaks with rushes."
Coriolanus, Act 1, Sc. 1
written between 1605 and 1608

SQOTD: (for July 23)
"In her days every man shall eat in safety,
Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours."
- King Henry VIII, Act 5, Sc. 5
Henry VIII is a collaborative play between William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, written in 1613

Transmitting Shakespeare to the Next Generation Dakin Matthews, one of the stars of “Camelot” on Broadway, helps younger castmates hone their craft with Shakespeare lessons between shows.

SQOTD: (July 22)
MALCOLM:
"Receive what cheer you may;
The night is long that never finds the day."
- Macbeth, Act 4, Sc. 3

SQOTD: (July 21st...a day late)
HECTOR
"The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it."
– William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida, Act 4, Scene 5
Yr. between 1600 and 1603

SQOTD:
IAGO:
''Though other things grow fair against the sun, Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe...''
Othello, Act 2, Sc. 3
Yr.1604

SQOTD:
PAROLLES:
"There's place and means for every man alive."
All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Sc. 3
Yr. possible dates ranging from 1598 to 1608

SQOTD:
EDMUND:
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars"
King Lear, Act 1, Sc. 1
Yr. 1606

SQOTD:
HELENA:
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity."
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, sc. 1
Yr. 1595 or 1596

SQOTD:
SILVIUS:
"If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into,
Thou hast not loved."
- As You Like It, Act 2, Sc. 4
Yr. 1599

SQOTD:
HAMLET:
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."
- Hamlet, Act 3, Sc. 2
Yr. between 1599 and 1601

SQOTD:
DICK THE BUTCHER:
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
King Henry VI, Pt. 2, Act 4, Sc. 2
written between 1596 and 1599

SQOTD:
PROSPERO:
"We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
The Tempest, Act 5, Sc. 7

SQOTD:
BASTARD:
"This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself."
- King John, Act 5, Scene 7
Year: 1594-1596

SQOTD:
PROTEUS:
“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that
And manage it against despairing thoughts.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Act 3, Scene 1
Yr. between 1592-1594

SQOTD:
JAQUES:
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,"
- As You Like It, Act 2. Sc. 7
Yr. 1599

SQOTD:
"Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
And many maiden gardens, yet unset,
With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers,"
Sonnet 16
Yr. 1609

SQOTD:
JULIET:
"And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay
And follow thee my lord throughout the world."
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Sc. 2
Yr. 1597

SQOTD: July 7th
IACHIMO: [Aside]
"All of her that is out of door, most rich!
If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare,
She is alone the Arabian bird-"
Cymbeline, Act 1, Sc. 6
Yr. 1610

SQOTD:
BEROWNE:
"Why should proud summer boast
Before the birds have any cause to sing?"
Love's Labor's Lost - Act 1, scene 1

SQOTD:
OPHELIA:
"Take these again; for to the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
Hamlet, Act 3, Sc. 1
Written between 1599 and 1601

SQOTD:
CONSTABLE:
"As gardeners do with ordure hide these roots
That shall first spring and be most delicate."
King Henry V, Act 2, Sc. 4
Yr. 1599

SQOTD: (July 3)
JULIUS CAESAR:
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
Julius Caesar, Act 2, Sc. 2
Yr. 1599