A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

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Human Greatness Is Not All

HUMAN GREATNESS IS NOT ALL

Human greatness is not all-
Even Shakespeare will be dust-
Dust dust and more dust-
Stars die- Galaxies die -
The universe will die -
All of us will die-
Human greatness is not all,
And Shakespeare too will be dust.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Comedy of Errors

COMEDY OF ERRORS

Shrew tamed, All's Well, though here is Much Ado!
Antony and Cleopatra met
No Rape, no Tragedy, since each stayed true,
Grave born, like Romeo and Juliet.
Thus Richard, John and Harry had preferred
One History where each could heed thy call!
Measured each Tempest's threat is, for unheard
All envy's Comic Error is withal!
My love as Pilgrim Passionate here's signed,
As Venus to Adonis here allied,
Urge Lover's Complaint in neatest verse aligned, -
Dove Turtle are to Phoenix true supplied.
Echoed are Plays with Sonnets' sequent frame,
Continued may sustain Shakespearian flame.

12 November 1990 revised 22 September 2008 as Sonnet CLXXIV Maude Care Is Our Dream Shakespeare's Plays Parodies

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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

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We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

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Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

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Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

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Discovering Shakespeare

‘From you have I been absent in the spring.’
The words of Shakespeare have a truly lovely ring,
But, when I was younger, by his words, I was bored,
And his words, written on a page, by me, were ignored.

Now I’m older, I can see that his famous words,
Are actually among the loveliest I’ve ever heard.
Until recently, I couldn’t recite a Shakespeare speech,
But, slowly, line by line, myself, I did teach.

Of his work, I love the rhythm and rhyme,
As it makes it much easier to learn each line.
Being able to recite a short speech, I felt proud,
As I had never performed any of his work aloud.

I was really amazed at what I’d been able to achieve,
And now, from my mind, his words will never leave.
When I feel low, in my mind, his words I recall -
They lift my mood, just as I am about to fall.

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

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Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

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It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

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People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages.

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Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.

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Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

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Blind Kind of Love

Oh, to have
Such a great love.
An epic,
Amazing,
Set in place love.

Oh it would
Weather the storms
Of it's various forms,
This kind,
Enlightening,
Love.

My Shakespearean love,
That white-knight kind of love,
Chivalric,
Embellished,
And blind
Kind of love.

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What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

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We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

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I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

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Giving Up Smoking

There's not a Shakespeare sonnet
Or a Beethoven quartet
That's easier to like than you
Or harder to forget.

You think that sounds extravagant?
I haven't finished yet —
I like you more than I would like
To have a cigarette.

poem by Wendy Cope
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Great Laureate

When your Sonnet captures love's fantasy
A 'second Shakespeare' you may be
Writing of beautiful romance in bloom
Farewell to yesterday's doom and gloom.
All the wide world would welcome thee
Because of your knowledge and mastery
Young lovers may sing your madrigals
And a 'second Shakespeare' you will be.

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