If you had to recite a line from Shakespeare to save your life...would you live...or die?

Question

If you would live...please prove it by reciting your Shakespeare.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Methinks the Queen doth protest too much--Hamlet

Particularly regarding "Challenges" to her ability to continue generating interesting questions in such high volume.

Answer 2

I teach Shakespeare, and while I do not require my students memorize and recite lines, I can see the point. Drama is meant to be performed, not merely read aloud. Additionally, "getting" Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter does take practice; it's usually lost during a preliminary reading of the text. Also keep in mind, teachers do not merely want you to memorize random words; you have to really know and understand what a character is saying in order to memorize his/her lines. Thus, having students perform even relatively small parts of a Shakespearean play is a more authentic experience versus just reading it.

Answer 3

From Hamlet:
This above all: to thine own self be true

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so

Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love

From Romeo and Juliet:
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

Tempt not a desperate man

I love these quotes, but had to check the exact wording of some of them ... it's been so long my memory needs refreshing!

Answer 4

I would live........
So long lives this and this gives life to thee

William Shakespeare Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a
Summer's day?


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee

Answer 5

I would live!
Some people are born with greatness, some people are born into greatness, and some people have greatness trusted upon them
My third favourite. Richard lll

Not exact, so maybe I wouldn't make it
I could however fake it until I do.

Answer 6

I'd definitely live, unless I was rendered speechless.

Fie! Fie! Unknit that threatening, unkind brow.
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes...

That's from Taming of the Shrew. :D
Or, if I were really in a pinch,
"Words, words, words" from Hamlet.

Answer 7

romeo oh romeo how swet art thou romea sumthin sumtin call a roserose sumthin sumthin by every other name i guess id die



99 percent devil
1 percent angel
i think my mommy named me angel to compensate for all the evil in me

Answer 8

to be or not to be

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end

Answer 9

Romeo, o Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet!

Answer 10

Neither a borrower nor a lender be................
From Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1603:

LORD POLONIUS:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

I'm alive.................