Twelfth Night!

[Byron In Exile]

I recently discovered that a very good friend of mine has never read, nor seen enacted, nor seen any film of... this play.

It's rare that I get to see some great thing with him that I've seen and he hasn't. It's usually the other way around.

So... that's this weekend.

Who among you thinks it odd that one of your friends has never seen Twelfth Night?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I haven't seen or read it, either.

 

[phrodeau]

I know it well. It includes the worst pun Shakespeare ever wrote.

Sir Toby Belch: I would not so much as make water, but in a sink-a-pace.

 

[Saint Peter]

What are the odds any of these fuckers have any friends?

 

[Byron In Exile]

I haven't seen or read it, either.

An envious estate.

There's nothing like the first time.

 

[Byron In Exile]

What are the odds any of these fuckers have any friends?

Greater than those of one who welds buttholes, I imagine.

 

[kotori]

If music be the food of love, play on...

Any film with Helena Bonham Carter, but especially doing Shakespeare.

 

[phrodeau]

I liked the BBC production with the nummy Felicity Kendal.

 

[kotori]

I liked the BBC production with the nummy Felicity Kendal.

I was so smitten with Felicity Kendal as Barbara Good back in the late '70s. I loved her gravelly voice.

 

[duy2012]

I was so smitten with Felicity Kendal as Barbara Good back in the late '70s. I loved her gravelly voice.

Me too.

 

[HB1965]

I don't think it odd at all. Most people probably haven't really seen most of his plays

 

[HB1965]

I liked the BBC production with the nummy Felicity Kendal.

She was ok better looking than Sinead Cusack as Olivia

 

[firenzi]

All I remember is a blonde called Viola dressed like a man going "Malvolio" over and over. I know I supposed to read it too but I don't think I ever did.

 

[Saint Peter]

Greater than those of one who welds buttholes, I imagine.

No friends.
No butthole welding skills.

Sucks to be you.

 

[Byron In Exile]

No friends.
No butthole welding skills.

Sucks to be you.

Nuh uh... you.

 

[Byron In Exile]

If music be the food of love, play on...

Any film with Helena Bonham Carter, but especially doing Shakespeare.

^ That right there.

Too bad there isn't an Oscar for Best Ophelia...

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n307/byroninexile/et/HBC-Ophelia.jpg

 

[Saint Peter]

I can weld those.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I can weld those.

"We doubt it nothing."

Can you weld... two fruit bats together?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I bet he can even run a weasel-bead.

 

[Byron In Exile]

I don't think it odd at all. Most people probably haven't really seen most of his plays

I haven't seen most of his plays.

 

[Byron In Exile]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DGoF0CQlU

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

There's a great Shakespeare app. Every play. On my iPhone. Searchable. With notes. Freakin' great.

 

[Byron In Exile]

There's a great Shakespeare app. Every play. On my iPhone. Searchable. With notes. Freakin' great.

Well, if you're not just little mister techno-britches!

 

[Byron In Exile]

Any film with Helena Bonham Carter, but especially doing Shakespeare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0sjXNTBJ0

CLOWN
Wit, and't be thy will, put me into good fooling! Those wits
that think they have thee do very oft prove fools; and I, that am
sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man. For what says
Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. — God bless
thee, lady!

OLIVIA
Take the fool away.

CLOWN
Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.

OLIVIA
Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you: besides, you
grow dishonest.

CLOWN
Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend:
for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the
dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer
dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Anything
that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but
patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
If that this simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,
what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but calamity, so
beauty's a flower: — the lady bade take away the fool; therefore,
I say again, take her away.

OLIVIA
Sir, I bade them take away you.

CLOWN
Misprision in the highest degree! — Lady, Cucullus non facit
monachum; that's as much to say, I wear not motley in my
brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

OLIVIA
Can you do it?

CLOWN
Dexteriously, good madonna.

OLIVIA
Make your proof.

CLOWN
I must catechize you for it, madonna.
Good my mouse of virtue, answer me.

OLIVIA
Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll 'bide your proof.

CLOWN
Good madonna, why mourn'st thou?

OLIVIA
Good fool, for my brother's death.

CLOWN
I think his soul is in hell, madonna.

OLIVIA
I know his soul is in heaven, fool.

CLOWN
The more fool you, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul
being in heaven. — Take away the fool, gentlemen.

OLIVIA
What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?

MALVOLIO
Yes; and shall do, till the pangs of death shake him.
Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.

CLOWN
God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the better
increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be sworn that I am no fox;
but he will not pass his word for twopence that you are no fool.

OLIVIA
How say you to that, Malvolio?

MALVOLIO
I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren
rascal; I saw him put down the other day with an ordinary fool
that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of
his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him,
He is gagged. I protest I take these wise men that crow so at
these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies.

OLIVIA
O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a
distempered appetite. To be generous, guiltless, and of free
disposition, is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem
cannon bullets. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he
do nothing but rail; nor no railing in known discreet man, though
he do nothing but reprove.

 

[kitten1964]

There's a great Shakespeare app. Every play. On my iPhone. Searchable. With notes. Freakin' great.

I want...that app...
*gets out her mile-long Xmas list and adds to it...*