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Yesterday afternoon, I was restless and achey, which is not a good combination.
So I turned on TCM and there I found…
Hamlet!!
The Lawrence Olivier version, in black and white, from 1948.
As I listened to the play, I realised how much of just this one play is still in common use.
For example, my answer machine message:
Brevity is the soul of wit...leave your message.
Who can forget Bones McCoy in one of the Star Trek movies remarking,
“Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!”
How often have I signed of for the night with a shortened version of:
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ”
Also, in STTNG, Captain Picard defends humanity to the Q by saying,
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
One I’ve used, fairly ofen is:
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
To which I add…
And it ain’t the red herring!
All of these are from a single play!
Just one play out of all he wrote, and that’s not inlcuding his poems and sonnets and letters.
So if anyone tells you that Shakespeare is not worth reading, remind them that
we use his words every day, in one form or another.
And there lies immortality.
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