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  1. #1
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    It's on. A "Bard Off"

    Migrating this fight over from the PlagueWatch thread.

    First round, my rules. I throw Shakespeare quotes at you and you come back with which play they are from. The first round is 5 quotes. No googling, if you don't know it, you don't know it. I'll put a couple of easy ones in there. You get to think of the rules for the second round.


    First quote:

    Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    Migrating this fight over from the PlagueWatch thread.

    First round, my rules. I throw Shakespeare quotes at you and you come back with which play they are from. The first round is 5 quotes. No googling, if you don't know it, you don't know it. I'll put a couple of easy ones in there. You get to think of the rules for the second round.


    First quote:

    Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
    “Take a Break” from Hamilton?
    "Amazing what a minute can do."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tripping William View Post
    “Take a Break” from Hamilton?
    No.

    Anybody else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    Migrating this fight over from the PlagueWatch thread.

    First round, my rules. I throw Shakespeare quotes at you and you come back with which play they are from. The first round is 5 quotes. No googling, if you don't know it, you don't know it. I'll put a couple of easy ones in there. You get to think of the rules for the second round.


    First quote:

    Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
    Little Orphan Annie?

  5. #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    Migrating this fight over from the PlagueWatch thread.

    First round, my rules. I throw Shakespeare quotes at you and you come back with which play they are from. The first round is 5 quotes. No googling, if you don't know it, you don't know it. I'll put a couple of easy ones in there. You get to think of the rules for the second round.


    First quote:

    Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
    Hamlet?
    Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!

    Go To Hell carolina, Go To Hell!
    9F 9F 9F
    https://ecogreen.greentechaffiliate.com

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    My response is told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OZZIE4DUKE View Post
    Hamlet?

    I'm pretty sure it's not Hamlet. I've read 8ish I think and while I wouldn't remember every line, I think I'd remember most of the famous lines. Boston suggested this was the first, that it would be well known, and probably from one of the biggies...the two biggies I haven't read are Macbeth and King Lear so I'm guessing one of those two.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    No.

    Anybody else?
    Whatcha mean, “no”?

    https://youtu.be/D2UWNF8pKwk

    (Okay, I’ll behave from Here On Out. Promise.)
    "Amazing what a minute can do."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    First quote:

    Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
    To the last syllable of recorded time
    and to all our yesterdays...{something about dusty death}

    (something like that without Google)

    I'm going with Macbeth.
    Rich
    "Failure is Not a Destination"
    Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016

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    I'll play when Burnham Wood moves on Dunsinane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tripping William View Post
    Whatcha mean, “no”?

    https://youtu.be/D2UWNF8pKwk

    (Okay, I’ll behave from Here On Out. Promise.)
    Lin Manuel Miranda is a theater god, he is not The Bard. This is a Bard Off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    Lin Manuel Miranda is a theater god, he is not The Bard. This is a Bard Off.
    Understood. No need to cry havoc. Or let slip the dogs of war.
    "Amazing what a minute can do."

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    Though I appear to have instigated this thread, I can't begin to compete. Ergo, I'm out.

    Parting is such sweet sorrow...

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    I'll give more time to answer with the rest of the quotes. I thought this was an easy one. Many of you got it. It's Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5. Macbeth has just been told the queen is dead.

    Here's Ian McKellan doing it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7g

    IMHO, most filmed versions of the play encourage way too much scenery chewing with this speech or, even worse, do it in voice over. It loses some power when it's done in voice over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tripping William View Post
    Understood. No need to cry havoc. Or let slip the dogs of war.
    Julius Caesar

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    Quote Originally Posted by dudog84 View Post
    Though I appear to have instigated this thread, I can't begin to compete. Ergo, I'm out.

    Parting is such sweet sorrow...
    Romeo & Juliet

    Juliet says it near the end of the balcony scene.

  17. #17
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    OK - second quote:

    The course of true love never did run smooth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    OK - second quote:

    The course of true love never did run smooth.
    Ah! We've discussed our shared acting in this one! I was Theseus and, if I recall correctly, this line was uttered shortly after I exited stage left (or right) in Act 1 Scene 1!


    Edited to add: When I played Theseus, I had a crush on Hermia so was actually pissed at the Lysander. End edit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Ah! We've discussed our shared acting in this one! I was Theseus and, if I recall correctly, this line was uttered shortly after I exited stage left (or right) in Act 1 Scene 1!


    Edited to add: When I played Theseus, I had a crush on Hermia so was actually pissed at the Lysander. End edit.
    Yep. Exactly right.

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    The next one is a quote I'm sure you have all heard, but which play? This one, I expect will be a hard one.

    First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

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