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Paul - from York

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Theatre, music, books, videogames and granddaughters, though not in that order. I have promises to keep.

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Hamlet hail to the thief was outstanding - everything I could possibly have wanted. Brilliantly orchestrated and choreographed, anchored by an extraordinary central performance from Samuel Blenkin.
#rsc
#radiohead
#Williamshakespeare

06.06.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please contact me (as Chair) if you are interested in this position, or know of someone who might be.

19.02.2025 09:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.

Romeo & Juliet A 3 Sc2 #ShakespeareSunday #christmas

15.12.2024 10:40 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cat is laying on a bed with a hat on its head . ALT: a cat is laying on a bed with a hat on its head .

Cat: open your mouth.

The Tempest A2Sc2 #shakespearesunday

08.12.2024 10:19 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Do not give advantage
To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme…

Troilus & Cressida A5Sc2 #shakespearesunday #notheme

08.12.2024 08:00 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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That winter lion, who in rage forgets
Aged contusions and all brush of time,

Henry VI Part II V, 3 #ShakespeareSunday

01.12.2024 12:02 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Young children attempt to play hockey on a frozen pond.

Young children attempt to play hockey on a frozen pond.

These boys are boys of ice

All's Well That Ends Well III, 4 #ShakespeareSunday

01.12.2024 12:06 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A raven larks about in the snow.

A raven larks about in the snow.

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.

Romeo and Juliet III, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

01.12.2024 12:08 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee

Sonnet 97 #shakespearesunday #winter

01.12.2024 10:01 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Birds sit brooding in the snow.
Love's Labour's Lost
#ShakespeareSunday

01.12.2024 09:30 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On old Hiems' thin and icy crown
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set.

AMND A2Sc1 #shakespearesunday #winter

01.12.2024 09:54 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.

Henry VIII A3Sc2 #shakespearesunday #winter

01.12.2024 09:22 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wallow naked in December snow…

Richard III A1Sc3 #shakespearesunday #winter

01.12.2024 09:07 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fardel = bundle or pack - a word we’ve lost, which Shakespeare uses several times, including in the To be or not to be speech!

28.11.2024 13:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly.

T&C A5Sc2 #shakespearesunday #baklava #sweet

24.11.2024 12:58 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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There's half-a-dozen sweets.

LLL A5Sc2 #shakespearesunday #sweet

24.11.2024 11:20 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Seasoning the earth with showers of silver brine.

RofL 843 #shakespearesunday #salty

24.11.2024 11:14 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Me too - this is me as Viola/Cesario in 1973!

20.10.2024 12:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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O time! thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me to untie!

12thN A2Sc2 #shakespearesunday

20.10.2024 07:34 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The princess at her pavilion in the posteriors of this day, which the
rude multitude call the afternoon.

LLL A5Sc1 #shakespearesunday

20.10.2024 07:28 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Even her art sisters the natural roses.
Pericles A5,0 #ShakespeareSunday

22.09.2024 08:17 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I would sing my song without a burden; thou bring'st me out of tune.

AYLI A3Sc2 #ShakespeareSunday

15.09.2024 09:13 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea.

Richard II A2Sc1 #ShakespeareSunday

15.09.2024 07:42 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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a banner that says meet me at the park hangs in a stadium ALT: a banner that says meet me at the park hangs in a stadium

We meet in the city.
AMND A1Sc2 #ShakespeareSunday

08.09.2024 06:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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She says up and down the town…
Henry IV p2 A2Sc1 #ShakespeareSunday

08.09.2024 06:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

Henry VI, Part II (4.7) #ShakespeareSunday

01.09.2024 11:00 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sam and Dean Winchester walking into high school. Sam is on the left, is carrying a backpack. Dean is on the right, asking Sam "Got your lunch, books, butterfly knife?"

Sam and Dean Winchester walking into high school. Sam is on the left, is carrying a backpack. Dean is on the right, asking Sam "Got your lunch, books, butterfly knife?"

"Thou know'st that we two went toΒ schoolΒ together" Julius Caesar A5 S5 #ShakespeareSunday #Supernatural #04x13 @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

01.09.2024 11:16 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft…

MofV A1Sc1 #ShakespeareSunday

01.09.2024 09:23 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I prithee do not mock me, fellow student.

Hamlet A1Sc2 #ShakespeareSunday

01.09.2024 07:01 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

Hamlet A3Sc2 #ShakespeareSunday

25.08.2024 07:33 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0