Alison

Thanks!

Agree. I’m Cusked out.

“I was advertis’d their great general slept,
Whilst emulation in the army crept;
This, I presume, will wake him.”
#thebard_problemplays
#troilus_2026

“Cry, Trojans, cry!”
#thebard_problemplays
#troilus_2026

“The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!”
#thebard_problemplays
#troilus_2026

“Two curs shall tame each other; pride alone
Must tarre the mastiffs on, as ‘twere a bone.”
#thebard_problemplays
#troilus_2026

“In the reproof of chance
Lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast, making their way
With those of nobler bulk!”
#troilus_2026
#thebard_problemplays

Louise Bourgeois: never heard of her before Kudos and coincidentally was an answer to a question on Jeopardy tonight
#rachelcusktogether

“Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:
Achievement is command; ungained, beseech.
Then, though my heart’s content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.”
#troilus_2026

“‘T’is just to each of them; he is himself.”
#troilus_2026

Thank you!

Went down a Joan Eardley rabbit hole today.
#rachelcusktogether

“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.”
#troilus_2026

Thanks. Dug up from the college years.

“So, bring us to our palace; where we’ll show
What’s yet behind, that’s meet you all should know.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

Anybody watching? Entertaining!

“Show your knave’s visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour. Will’t not off?”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

“That’s the way; for women are light at midnight.”
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“Justice, O royal Duke! Vail your regard
Upon a wronged—I would fain have said a maid.
O worthy prince, dishonor not your eye
By throwing it on any other object
Till you have heard me in my true complaint,
And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

Let me know what you think of the Mantel. That book is on my TBR pile.

“Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
He shall not pass you. Twice the trumpets sounded:
The generous and gravest citizens
Have hent the gates, and very near upon
The duke is ent’ring: therefore, hence away!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

Thank you!

“Unhappy Claudio! Wretched Isabel!
Injurious world! Most damned Angelo!”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

“A pox o’ your throats! Who makes that noise there? What are you?”
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“Come on, bawd. I will instruct thee in my trade; follow.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

“Take, O, take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn;
But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

Yes. I also read it at the end of last year and liked it. Nabokov has an interesting piece about MP in his Lectures on Literature.

“He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

“Correction and instruction must both work,
Ere this rude beast will profit.”
#TheBard_ProblemPlays

Thank you!