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What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man’s work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior? RALPH WALDO EMERSON on Shakespeare
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Test Your Vocabulary: how many words do you know?
Most Native English adult speakers who have taken the test fall in the range 20,000–35,000 words. And for foreign learners of English, we’ve found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words.
I scored 21,500 FUCK YES
I scored 20,700.
How did I score 30,500?!!
Well it explains how I somehow managed to get an A* in English Lan and an A in English Lit, but still I thought I was average at best maybe??31,000 booooooooomm
22,300…not bad, could be better.
MOTHERFUCKER YOU WANNA TALK WORDS
29,600
Not bad. Not bad at all.
…Admittedly, most of those are elaborate swears and insults that nobody’s used since the 1600s, but still.
34,500
motherfucker i will talk words with you
23,700
FLIPS A TABLE IN FRUSTRATION
30,400
Thank you, perfect Critical Reading score
30,900 words
38,100 words, thank you Shakespeare.
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Michael K. Williams as Shakespearean characters, Romeo, Hamlet, and Julius Caesar.
I’m trying to think of a single thing he’s been in where he wasn’t the best thing in the thing he was in.
Can’t think of anything.
I’m pretty sure that’s exactly how the senate sees Caesar.
saythattomyfacefuckeridareyou:
Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.
It’s actually, Shakespeare sounds more authentic in a backcountry Appalachian accent.
I will fight against my cankered country with the spleen of all the under fiends. But if thou dares not this, then I present my throat to thee and to thy ancient malice. Which not to cut would show thee but a fool, since I have ever followed thee with hate, and cannot live but to thy shame, unless it be to do thee service.
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr’d the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour.
right down to the last bullet: tywinning asked you: 2012-08-09 03:37 As a professor, may I ask you...
tywinning asked you:As a professor, may I ask you what you think about fanfiction?
I think fanfiction is literature and literature, for the most part, is fanfiction, and that anyone that dismisses it simply on the grounds that it’s derivative knows fuck-all about…
An interesting reflection of why fanfiction is awesome.
Jack Kirby: costume designer. Renowned comicbook creator Jack Kirby once designed costumes for a college production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar! — from Hello, Tailor: James Bond, Starfleet uniform bras, real-life Zoolander, and more.
So cool.
I feel like the Hal we see this time round comes across a lot more feckless because we’ve seen that he can do better, but he still goes back to his old ways of spying on Falstaff and failing to live up to his duties when his father needs him the most. He tells Poins that he’s upset about his father’s illness, but his younger brothers are all either by his father’s side at court or busy fighting rebels while he and Poins oil each other up and giggle. — from The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 2.
OMG “oil each other up and giggle” please tell me that’s actually what happens. I want giggling.
this is exactly what happens!!!!!!
Yeah, Poins is my favorite.
