comedy of errors

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Wil l iam Shakespear e

Part II

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Comedy of Errors

(Stuart Robson and William Craneas two Dromios)

Dromio: I am an ass, I am a woman's man, and besides myself.


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Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC)

The Roman theatre at Ephesus, setting for Shakespeare´s „Comedy of Errors“

Antipholus: Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands?Dromio: O, sir, I did not look so low.



(from the Globe Theatre)

(Kevin Black as Petruchio,Emily Jordan as Kate)

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

KATE: No shame but mine. I must, forsooth, be forced to give my hand, opposed against my heart unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure.



(Richard Burton as Petruchio,Elisabeth Taylor as Kate)

PAGE: My husband and my lord, my lord and husband; I am your wife in all obedience.SLY: I know it well.



LOVE´S LABOUR´S LOST

FERDINAND: A man in all the world's new fashion planted, that hath a mint of phrases in his brain.



BIRON: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: they sparkle still the right Promethean fire.



(Thomasin Rand as Rosaline and Trystan Gravelle as Lord Berowne)

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT´S DREAM

Helena: Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.



Ladislav Pešek as Puck

Puck:

Captain of our fairy band,

Helena is here at hand, and the youth, mistook by me,

pleading for a lover´s fee.

Shall we their fond pageant see?

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

picture of Puck by Jiří Trnka





Another imaginations of Puck…

PUCK: I am the merry wanderer of the night.

(Oldřich Vízner as Oberon,Táňa Pauhofová as Puck)



OBERON: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,quite over - canopied with luscious woodbine,with sweet musk – roses and with englantine.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

(František Šámalas Shylock)

BASSANIO:If it please you to dine with us.

SHYLOCK:Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitationwhich your prophet, the Nazarite, conjured the devil into! I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.



(Zdenka Hrnčířová as Jessica,Karel Kalaš as Shylock)

PRINCE OF MOROCCO:Mislike me not for my complexion, the shadowed livery of the burnish'd sun, to whom I am a neighbour, and near bred.



(Al Pacino as Shylock)

Shylock: An oath, an oath! I have an oath in heaven.



MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Leonato: There was never yet philosopherthat could endure the toothache patiently.



(Růžena Nasková as Beatrice)

Claudio: O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!



AS YOU LIKE IT

SILVIUS: No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess, though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover as ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow.



ROSALIND: Alas, what danger will it be to us,Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.





(Martin Dejdar as Jacques)

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…

TWELFTH NIGHT

Duke Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on…

(Orson Welles as Malvolio)



THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

FORD: If money go before, all ways do lie open.



(Jaroslav Marvan as John Falstaff)

FALSTAFF: I do begin to perceive that I am made into an ass.



(Vlasta Fabiánová, Dana Medřická and Jan Pivec)

FALSTAFF: This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.



(Gottlob Frick as Falstaff)

FALSTAFF: If I be served such another trick, I'll have my brains ta'en out, and buttered, and give them to a dog for a new year's gift.



ALL´S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

CLOWN: It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks,the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn buttock, or any buttock.



MEASURE FOR MEASURE

ISABELLA: Better it were a brother died at once,than that a sister, by redeeming him,should die for ever.



LUCIO: I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.Your highness said even now, I made you a duke:good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.

Ladislav Pešek



ANTIOCHUS: It fits thee not to ask the reason why:because we bid it.

PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE



(picture of Posthumus and Imogen)

CYMBELINE

POSTHUMUS: Every good servant does not all commands.



(Dame Ellen Terry as Imogen)

Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 - 1375

THE WINTER´S TALE

(John Fawcett as Autolycus)

Leontes: Is whispering nothing?Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses?



Ladislav Pešek

CAMILLO:Business, my lord? I think most understand Bohemia stays here longer.LEONTES:Ha?CAMILLO:Stays here longer.



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(Russian actor Fyodor Paramonovas Caliban)

CALIBAN: You taught me language, and my profit on’t is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language!

(Zdeněk Junák as Prospero,Barbora Obozněnko as Miranda)

PROSPERO: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air; and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind.





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