Hana Lass as Juliet and Michael Place as Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet” (WO 2008).
With the start of rehearsals for Love’s Labour’s Lost, we’re getting immersed in the vagaries of love. Shakespeare was a pro at putting to words what the heart wants to express…and yet he only mentions the holiday of Valentine’s Day twice in all of his plays. Do you know which plays?
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A Midsummer Nights Dream and Hamlet. My favorite:
SONNET 130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night Dream
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart the courage to make love known?
The two plays are Hamlet and Midsummer NIght’s Dream.
Favorite quote is: “What fools these mortals be”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and in Hamlet both mention St. Valentine’s Day. My favorite Shakespeare quote about love? There are so many!!! I guess at this moment my favorite is:
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
The Plays: 1) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2) Hamlet
The Quote: “Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet!
“What’s gone and what’s past help
Should be past grief.”
(I know, not the most romantic quote, but hey… It’s valentine’s day, and I’m at home on the internet, perusing the Shakespeare Seattle website. Love’s labors lost, mother f**ker
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The two plays that mention Valentines Day are Hamlet and Midsummer night’s dream. My favorite quote about love from Shakespeare is from all’s well that ends well- Love all, Trust a few, Do wrong to none. I would love to win these tickets!! Thanks, Jaimie
Name the two Shakespeare plays that mention Valentine’s Day:
Hamlet,
Romeo And Juliet
give us your favorite quote about love from the Bard.
“Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let
me die, for I have lived long enough.” -The Merry Wives of Windsor.
I saw this play a year ago, I believe at Seattle Shakespeare Company. These word have always stuck with me and begun many interesting conversations when I feel the urge to quote Shakespeare to someone.
Act 4 Scene 5 of Hamlet, Ophelia: Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day. Act 4 Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Good morrow, friends, Saint Valentine is past. Favorite quote: If music be the food of love, play on (Twelve Nights)
The two plays are:
1) Hamlet (spoken by Ophelia in Act IV, Scene 5)
2) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (spoken by Theseus in Act IV, Scene 1)
My favorite love quote from the Bard is from Twelfth night (Act III, Scene 1):
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better”
Valetine’s day is mentioned in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet.
My favorite quote is also “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
Hamlet and Midsummer Night’s Dream are the two plays.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom
The two plays that mention Valentine’s Day are Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet.
Hamlet, Midsummer Night’s Dream
A favorite: Shakespeare love quote 52: Love quote from Henry V – Act 5, Scene 2
You have witchcraft in your lips
Hamlet (Ophelia’s song she sings after Polonius’s death, when she isn’t entirely there begins with the words “Tomorrow is St. Valentine’s Day”)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus wakes the lovers up at the end with the greeting “Good morrow friends, St. Valentine’s is past.”)
Quote… “If music be the food of love, play on.”
Shakespeare mentions Saint Valentine’s Day in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and in Hamlet.
One of my favorite Shakespeare quotes is “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow” from Romeo and Juliet.
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Valentine is a character in this play
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
A Midsummer Nights Dream & Hamlet
Hamlet & Midsummer Night;s Dream. Favorite love quotes at the moment are from the latter:
“One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;
One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.”
and so on…
Two times Valentine’s Day is mentioned:
A Midsummers Night’s Dream
(Act 4, Scene 5)
Hamlet (Act 4, Scene 5)
Favorite Quote:
Merchant of Venice
Act 3, Scene 2:
“How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embrac’d despair,
And shudd’ring fear, and green-eyed jealousy!
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!”
Plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet
Favorite quote: “I would not wish any companion in the world but you” – The Tempest
Valentine’s Day is mentioned in Midsummer Night’s Dream and in Hamlet.
A favorite Shakespeare quote of mine having to do with love: “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
Hamlet
Midsummer Nights Dream
Taming of the Shrew:
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance; commits his body
To painful labor, both by sea and land;
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou li’st warm at home, secure and safe;
Plays:
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Quote:
“Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.”
Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet. My favorite love quote is from King Lear:
CORDELIA: [Aside] What shall Cordelia do?
Love, and be silent.
Plays: Hamlet, A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Favorite Quote about love:
Sonnet 73
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish’d by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Hamlet (Ophelia’s song beginning “Tomorrow Is St. Valentine’s Day”) and Midsummer Night’s Dream (“St. Valentine is past”)
For quotes, I always liked the scene between Richard II and his Queen when they have to part
“Banish us both, and let him come with me” to which Northumberland replies “That were some love, but little policy.” She must know it’s a hopeless request, but she tries anyway.