mrdickens.bsky.social
@mrdickens.bsky.social
Actor, speaker . Giving talks about the real Harry Selfridge story and the life of of Charles Dickens. A major Shakespeare geek, have played many Shakespearean roles on stage my favourite being Richard III a fantastic part for any actor to play.
#ShakespeareSunday “Clarence,thy turn is next, and then the rest; counting myself but bad till I be best. I’ll throw thy body in another room, and triumph ,Henry , in thy day of doom “
Henry VI part III Act V Sc VI
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “Once more we sit in Englands royal throne, repurchas’d with the blood of enemies.What valiant foemen ,like to autumn’s corn have we mow’d down in tops of all their pride”
Henry VI part three Act 5 Sc 7
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “Ah my poor princes! Ah my tender babes! My unblowed flowers,new appearing sweets! If your gentle souls fly in the air and be not fixed in doom perpetual.Hover about me with your airy wings and hear your mother’s lamentations “
Richard III Act 4 Sc 4
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “Simple plain Clarence,I do love thee so that I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, if heaven will take the present at our hands”
Richard III Act 1 Sc 1
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost to hear the lamentations of poor Anne wife to thy Edward,to thy slaughtered son stabbed by the selfsame hand that made these wounds.Lo in these windows that let forth thy life I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes”
RIII Act 1 Sc 2
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “I am a villain:yet I lie,I am not.Fool of thyself speak well: fool do not flatter. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns for a villain. Perjury in the highest degree”
Richard III Act 5 Sc3
November 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#ShakedpeareSunday “What? Do I fear myself? There’s none else by. Richard loves Richard:that is.I am I.Is there a murderer here?No.Yes. I am.Then fly.What,from myself?Great reason why:lest I revenge.What ?myself upon myself? Alack,i love myself.
Richard III Act 5 Sc 3
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
#ShakespeareSunday “Nature seems dead,and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep.Witchcraft celebrates pale Hecate’s offerings and withered murder alarumed by his sentinel the wolf”
Macbeth Act II: Sc 1
October 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “Are you like the painting of sorrow, a face without a heart?”
Hamlet
October 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “One may smile,and smile,and be a villain “
Hamlet
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “Ye have angels’ faces, but heaven knows your hearts.”
Henry VIII
October 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart”
Merchant of Venice
October 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
#ShakedpeareSunday “Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth “
King John
donald trump is wearing a suit and tie while making a funny face .
ALT: donald trump is wearing a suit and tie while making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “I dare say my cousin William is become a good scholar. He is at Oxford still, is he not?”
Henry IV part 2 Act III Sc 2
August 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction”
The Merchant of Venice
August 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “She is spherical, like a globe.I could find out countries in her”
The Comedy of Errors
August 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “What infinite heartease must kings neglect that private men enjoy? And what have kings that privates have not too, save ceremony, save general ceremony?
Henry V Act IV Sc 1
August 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#ShakespeareSunday “Now my co-mates and brothers in exile, hath not old custom made this life more sweet than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court?”
As You Like It Act II Sc 1
August 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
#ShakespeareSunday “Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, by drunken prophecies, libels and dreams to set my brother Clarence and the King in deadly hate the one against the other.”
Richard III
August 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#ShakespeareSunday Buckingham “Why let it strike?
King Richard “Because that like a Jack thou keep’st the stroke betwixt thy begging and my meditation.I am not in the giving vein today”
Richard III Act 3 sc:4
August 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “What’s O’Clock?”
Richard III
August 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “Showing as in a model our firm estate, when our sea-walled garden, the whole land, is full of weeds”
First Man Richard II Act 3 Sc 4
August 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#ShakespeareSunday # that the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn”
Corin As You Like It Act 3 Sc 2
August 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#ShakespeareSunday “Belike for want of rain,which I could well beteem them from the tempest of mine eyes.”
Hermia A Midsummer Nights Dream Act 1 Sc 1
August 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I think I had a rival fan sat next to me in the stadium… his son was wearing an Arsenal top, but when Saka went down in the first half, his son asked his dad, ‘what’s wrong’? His dad replied ‘it’s Saka being Saka’…

Then after a ‘we hate Tottenham song’, he said ‘I went to school in Tottenham’… 🤔🤣
August 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM