For #ShakespeareSunday’s Chaos & Order theme I’m resharing this thread about Shakespeare’s great contemporary Christopher Marlowe, and specifically Tamburlaine, which at one point rather dominated my life…Tamburlaine destroys old decaying orders and imposes on them his own violent caprices and chaos

#ShakespeareSunday’s today is DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS 📆

“ Did you not of late dayes heare
A buzzing of a Separation
Betweene the King and Katherine?”

(Henry 8th; All Is True)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s today is WILD & TAME 🐅 🐎 🐕

“Two curs shall tame each other: pride alone
Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone.”

(Troilus & Cressida)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s today is LOUD & QUIET 🤫 😆🤬

But soft you, let me be

(Much Ado)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s today is RICHARD 3rd & HENRY 7th

I was borne so high:
Our ayerie buildeth in the Cedars top,
And dallies with the winde, and scornes the Sunne

(R3)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s today is THEME FREE, so here’s a random line pick:

Selfe-harming Jealousie; fie beat it hence

(CofE)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s theme today is WEATHER 🌦️ 🌞 💨 ⛈️ ❄️

“ the wearie sunne set in the West”

(CofE)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s theme today is WEATHER 🌦️ 🌞 💨 ⛈️ ❄️

“When the sunne shines, let foolish gnats make sport,
But creepe in crannies, when he hides his beames”

(CofE)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s theme today is QUARRELS & ARGUMENTS 😤

“ You'll marre the light by taking it in snuffe:
Therefore Ile darkely end the argument”

(L’s Ls Lst)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s theme today is ENGLISH HISTORY

Cosin of Herford, as thy cause is just,
So be thy fortune in this Royall fight:
Farewell, my blood, which if to day thou shead,
Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.
(R2)

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#ShakespeareSunday’s theme today is SPRING 🌷🪴 🐣
“ he is growne so great.”

(Julius Caesar)

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Thing is, there really IS a #shakespeare quotation for every emotion and occasion.

So this week’s #shakespearesunday’s going to depend entirely on what kind of mood I’m in when I wake up!