Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.
Ursula K. Le GuinStichwörter: shakespeare sleep dreams
Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and women. On the contrary, it seizes on the flimsiness of dramatic characters as a metaphor for the fleeting, fantasy-ridden quality of actual human lives. It is we who are made of dreams, not just such figments of Shakespeare’s imagination as Ariel and Caliban. The cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces of this earth are mere stage scenery after all.
Terry EagletonStichwörter: existence reality shakespeare dreams literature
If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love dramas or power dramas, or a combination of the two. In his Histories, the poet handles the power problem primarily, the love interest being decidedly incidental. In the Comedies, it is the other way around, overwhelmingly in the lighter ones, distinctly in the graver ones, except in Troilus and Cressida--hardly comedy at all--where without full integration something like a balance is maintained. In the Tragedies both interests are important, but Othello is decidedly a love drama and Macbeth as clearly a power drama, while in Hamlet and King Lear the two interests often alternate rather than blend.
Harold Clarke GoddardStichwörter: love power shakespeare
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
Stichwörter: shakespeare desperation cancer diseases
He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.
Robert G. IngersollStichwörter: science shakespeare admiration drama honor praise william-shakespeare recognition alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt humboldt scientist
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
C.P. SnowStichwörter: humor science shakespeare literacy funny illiteracy scientists culture william-shakespeare thermodynamics standards double-standard educated second-law-of-thermodynamics
Dame los puñales; los que duermen y los muertos no son sino sombras; únicamente los ojos de los niños tiemblan ante una estampa del diablo.
William ShakespeareStichwörter: shakespeare macbeth lady-macbeth
Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.
Stichwörter: shakespeare beauty death sonnet
Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.
William ShakespeareStichwörter: deception shakespeare sonnet
We've been told that with regard to seduction, "candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker," but in truth, rather, properly selected: "candy makes randy; liquor makes desire flicker"; or, as Shakespeare's porter said to Macduff: "[drink] provokes the desire but it takes away the performance." The wines and beers of antiquity, however, which were potent infusions of innumerable psychoactive plants, often requiring dilution with water and in which alcohol served rather as preservative then inebriating active principle.
Rick DoblinStichwörter: shakespeare psychedelics
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