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Shakespeare is freakin' awesome.

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Narr:
So, me and some friends got together and read the first couple acts of Othello tonight.  I got to do the part of Iago.

My favorite, favorite moment of the night was Iago's advice to his friend Roderigo when the latter was expressing desires of drowning himself.

"Come, be a man!  Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!"

Inlander:
Speak, my Lavinia, what accursed hand
Hath made thee handless in thy father's sight?
What fool hath added water to the sea,
Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
My grief was at the height before though cam'st;
And now, like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds.
Give me a sword, I'll chop off my hands too;
For they have fought for Rome, and all in vain;
And they have nurs'd this woe in feeding life;
In bootless prayer have they been held up,
Now all the service I require of them
Is that the one will help cut the other. -
'Tis well, Lavinia, that thou hast no hands;
For hands, to do Rome service, are but vain.

Titus Andronicus, Act III, scene I.

I read that play after I had a particularly horrific dream that haunted me for weeks. Reading the most brutal play in Shakespeare's cannon helped exorcise it. I still love that speech - the utter despair of it is so moving.

Fiddler:
The next logical choice from this thread is for people to start putting up dramatic readings of shakespeare they have done themselves.

Will:
I would, but I'm too busy dramatizing shitty pop music.  The Bard shall have to wait.

KOODustin:
I've done too much shakespeare.  I can't stand it now.  Seriously, I despise his plays.

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