Monthly Archives: June 2012

Shakespeare on Silence and Nonverbal Communications

Posted on June 8, 2012 by jimmie

 “… There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gestures.” (Winter’s Tale, act 5, sc. 2) Tips for use. Describe the astonishment of a silent audience. Also, pull the leg of an audience (it could be an audience of one) that is completely silent once you have finished your piece or speech. Substitute Read More

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Seven Ages of Man, take 3, the Lover

Posted on June 8, 2012 by jimmie

“… And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad, Made to his mistress’ eyebrow” (As You Like It, act 3, sc. 2)) Tips for use. Sighs and ballads dedicated to the mistress’ eyebrow are but two of a multitude of symptoms attributable to love. Robert Burton (1577 – 1640), a contemporary of Read More

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Shakespeare on Ambition, Upstarts, Lowliness as Ambition’s Ladder

Posted on June 7, 2012 by jimmie

“…’tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s    ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.” (Julius Caesar act 2., sc.1) Tips for use.  Sadly, a Read More

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Shakespeare on People who are Always Late and have no Concept of Time

Posted on June 6, 2012 by jimmie

“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. “ (As You Like It act 3, sc. 2) Tips for use.  Ironic or sarcastic remark on a person who is habitually and notoriously late. It can be directly attributable to a live person or it could be included in a presentation or lecture to describe a Read More

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Shakespeare on Ecofriendly Living According to Nature

Posted on June 5, 2012 by jimmie

 “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.” (As You Like It act 2, sc.1) Tips for use.  What better way to praise a life of simple pleasures and relaxation, bucking the incitement to incessant and unstoppable consumption Read More

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Shakespeare on the Difference between Theory and Practice

Posted on June 3, 2012 by jimmie

 “If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces – it is a good divine that follows his own instructions.” (Merchant of Venice act 1, sc. 2) Tips for use.  Encapsulation of an unavoidable truth – knowing what needs to Read More

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Seven Ages of Man, take 2, the Whining Schoolboy

Posted on June 2, 2012 by jimmie

“Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining-morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school” (As You Like It, act 2, sc. 7) Tips for use.  Applicable to any boy of school age who is reluctant to go to school. He may not be completely wrong. For one, check the blog about Caliban and Read More

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Shakespeare on Retirement and Retirement Speeches

Posted on June 2, 2012 by jimmie

 “…and ‘tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl towards death.” (King Lear, act 1, sc.1) Tips for use.  Perfect opening for a retirement speech, a bit rough at the end but realistic. With a gentler touch Oliver Goldsmith says, O, Read More

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Shakespeare on Music as the Food of Love

Posted on June 1, 2012 by jimmie

“If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it; that surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die. (Twelfth Night act 1, sc. 1) Tips for use. Answer to ‘Would you like to listen to some music?’ in a romantic setting. Music occupies the void that words cannot fill. Though Read More

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