Shakespeare fan

[Antony P]

Occasional user of online forums, regular user of books, in a chair, with a good reading light (or sunlight when possible.) From an unfeasibly young age I've been engaged with the life, times and works of Mr William Shakespeare. (Which is how I found this forum.)

 

[horseless carriage]

Have you seen the signature under my forum name? “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
The quotation is from: "All's Well That Ends Well." Act 1 Scene 1.
Many times you might hear: "Shakespeare is so boring," but when the English that it's written in, what we term as "Old English," is explained, then boring it is not. Certainly Hollywood doesn't thinks so: Taming of the Shrew--10 Things I Hate About You. Hamlet--The Lion King. Twelth Night--She's The Man. Romeo & Juliet--Warm Bodies.
There's many more but those examples give you the gist. Welcome to Senior Forums and whilst Shakespeare might not use the term: "Old Fart," he certainly knew how to send up geriatrics:

The Seven Ages of Man: In As You Like It, Jaques famously describes the sixth age as a "lean and slipper'd pantaloon" and the final, seventh stage as "second childishness and mere oblivion, / Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything".

 

[John cycling]

Sonnet 123:

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.

Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old,
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.

Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past;
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by that continual haste.

This I do vow, and this shall ever be:
I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.

 

[Magna-Carta]

Sonnet 123:

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.

Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old,
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.

Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past;
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by that continual haste.

This I do vow, and this shall ever be:
I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.

No doubt this and others would have rhymed better in their original 400 year old pronunciation.

 

[gruntlabor]

Welcome, Antony P, from Alaska



Roses is red
Alders is green
Them's the most tasty
I ever has seen

 

[Tish]

 

[Medusa]

 

[Meanderer]

Welcome @Antony P from Pennsylvania! Hope you stick around.
"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast" (Comedy of Errors)

 

[Pinky]

Welcome to the forum @Antony P

 

[Meanderer]

"A warm, formal welcome can be expressed as "A hundred thousand welcomes" (Coriolanus), while "Good morrow to thee. Welcome" is a fitting, polite morning greeting."

 

[asp3]

Welcome! I hope you enjoy the community here.

I'm curious as to how Shakespeare led you to this forum.

I didn't really get at all into Shakespeare until I was in college and started dating some theater majors. I eventually used to keep a complete works of Shakespeare book at work because I'd look up things for quotes.

I tend to only like his comedies but appreciate his other work as well.

 

[QuietByNature]

 

[Babs2u]

Welcome from Atlanta!

 

[Lavinia]

There is a theory that Shakespeare's work was written by a group of people, which used the name of William Shakespeare. He certainly existed but only wrote a small number of the works accredited to him.