@alisonjaye.bsky.social
“O, sir, you are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine: you should be rul’d, and led
By some discretion that discerns your state
Better than yourself.”
#kinglear_2025
He will be barking a soliloquy before you know it.
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“Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold
This shameful lodging.
Fortune, good night; smile once more; turn thy wheel!”
#kinglear_2025
“You have heard of the news abroad,— I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?”
#kinglear_2025
Thank you!
28.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“That’s a shealed peascod.”
Lear, an empty peapod.
#kinglear_2025
Thank you!
26.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great story about how he was asked to recite the last lines of King Lear at Olivier’s funeral.
#kinglear_2025
Oswald. “I’ll not be strucken, my lord.”
Kent. “Nor tripped neither, you base football player.”
#kinglear_2025
“Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
Shall top th’legitimate. I grow, I prosper.
Now, gods, stand up for bastards.”
#kinglear_2025
“Tis the infirmity of his age; yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.”
#kinglear_2025
Thank you!
21.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me, either!
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“Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
According to my bond; nor more nor less.”
#kinglear_2025
“but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moiety.”
#kinglear_2025
Princeton, NJ
19.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks. Here for the long run with you and mom.
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@christina500.bsky.social @lizoksbooks.bsky.social
Getting ready for our (and
whoever else wants to join) Brontë bonanza. Ordered a used copy of Shirley so now I will have them all!
TED talk: You can do it all with flat, ugly shoes.
#rachelcusktogether
Can you imagine the thrill of such a find?
15.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Nor shall this peace sleep with her: but as when…”
This and the following 17 lines are generally conjectured to be an interpolation, made at some revival of the play, after the accession of King James.
#henryviii_2025
“Lead the way, lords;—
Ye must all see the Queen, and she must thank ye,
She will be sick else. This day, no man think
H’as business at his house; for all shall stay:
This little one shall make it holiday.”
#henryviii_2025
“My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:
I thank ye heartily; so shall this lady,
When she has so much English.”
#henryviii_2025
Congratulations, Lisa! Great cover.
14.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“You’ll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Parish-garden?”
#henryviii_2025
On my bucket list
13.10.2025 22:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not Brontë, but I also have Lady Audley’s Secret (Mary Elizabeth Braddon) which we were supposed to read in my college Victorian Lit class, but never got to it…still haven’t as it stares at me from my bookshelves. 😁
13.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I have both as well. I’ve also never read Shirley or The Professor by Charlotte. Ready when you all are!
13.10.2025 19:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I want to read some Anne Brontë. Have never read anything by her.
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