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About Shakespeare For Every Day Of The Year
Product Description "Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is not just for Christmas, but for all time." —Helena Bonham CarterA magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare's works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike. Make Shakespeare a part of your daily routine with Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, a yearlong collection of passages from Shakespeare's greatest works. Drawing from the full spectrum of plays and sonnets to mark each day of the year, whether it's a scene from Hamlet to celebrate Christmas or a Sonnet in June to help you enjoy a summer's day. There are also passages to mark important days in the Shakespeare calendar, both from his own life and from his plays: You'll read a pivotal speech from Julius Caesar on the Ides of March and celebrate Valentine's day with a sonnet. Every passage is accompanied by an enlightening note to teach you its significance and help you better appreciate the timelessness and poetry of Shakespeare's words . Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year will give you a thoughtful way reflect on each day, all while giving you a deeper appreciation for the most famous writer in the English language. Review "What distinguishes [ Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year] are its fascinating, scholarly prefaces. A lucky dip for all ages and a handsome Christmas diversion." —Books of the Year, The Observer " Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is not just for Christmas, but for all time." —Helena Bonham Carter About the Author Allie Esiri is a former English stage, film, and television actress and has been in numerous productions of Shakespeare’s plays, including performances with the English Shakespeare Company. A lifelong lover of Shakespeare’s poetry, she also studied Medieval and Modern English at Cambridge University. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. January 1 | Romeo and Juliet | Prologue Very few of Shakespeare's plays have a prologue, but among them is the following from Romeo and Juliet. It is one of the most famous openings in the canon and a fitting start for our year of Shakespeare. The Prologue tells us that these original star-crossed lovers are going to die, which amounts to something of a spoiler. Because of this, the audience knows that despite the levity and love in the beginning of the play, this couple is hurtling, unbeknownst to them, towards a tragic fate. CHORUS Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. January 2 | Twelfth Night | Act 1 Scene 1 Shakespeare mentions food in all of his plays, and many of the associated phrases have become absorbed into modern English expressions; perhaps in your 'salad days', when 'the world is your oyster', you may find yourself 'in a pickle'. You may have fond memories of a 'feast fit for the Gods', though not in the same sense as Brutus meant it in Julius Caesar: for him, the feast is Caesar, whom Brutus hopes to 'carve up'. The opening line of Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's most well known. Here, the lovelorn Duke Orsino orders his court musicians to keep playing romantic tunes so that he might become sick of thinking about love, like a glutton unable to contemplate another mouthful. ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! It had a dying fall. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, Tha
