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Shakespeare Closely Read — 130 episodes
130. Antony and Cleopatra continued - Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun
129. Antony and Cleopatra continued - You shall have time to wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.
128. Anthony and Cleopatra begins - Eternity was in our lips and eyes
127. Christmas Bonus - The Journey of the Magi
126. Life of Anthony - Selections from Plutarch
125. Plutarch on Julius Caesar's Death
124. Julius Caesar concludes - This was the noblest Roman of them all
123. Julius Caesar continued - O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet
122. Julius Caesar - continued - There is a tide in the affairs of men
121. Julius Caesar continued - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
120. Julius Caesar continued - The Ides of March are come. Et tu, Brute?
119. Julius Caesar continued - The valiant never taste of death but once
118. Julius Caesar continued - I know he would not be a wolf But that he sees the Romans are but sheep
117. Julius Caesar begins. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves
116. Coriolanus - Plutarch concludes. He who least likes courting favor, ought also least to think of resenting neglect.
115. Coriolanus - Plutarch continues. to satisfy a revengeful humor, you brought misery on your friends
114. Coriolanus - Plutarch Continued. divine aid and cooperation can act.
113. Coriolanus - Plutarch Continues. The town he entered of his mortal foes.
112. Coriolanus - Plutarch Continued. virtue which made him despise advantage.
111. Coriolanus - Livy concludes and Plutarch begins
110. Coriolanus - The History (Livy)
109. Coriolanus Concludes - at his nurse’s tears He whined and roared away your victory
108. Coriolanus - Down, ladies! Let us shame him with our knees
107. Coriolanus - the people Deserve such pity of him as the wolf Does of the shepherds
106. Coriolanus - I shall be loved when I am lacked
105. Coriolanus - I would not buy Their mercy at the price of one fair word
104. Coriolanus - To bring the roof to the foundation
103. Coriolanus - He hath deserved worthily of his country
102. Coriolanus - Martius Caius Coriolanus! Bear Th’ addition nobly ever!
101. Coriolanus - Make you a sword of me?
100. Coriolanus begins - even to the altitude of his virtue
99. Measure For Measure concludes - Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure
98. Measure For Measure - Till you have heard me in my true complaint And given me justice, justice, justice, justice.
97. Measure For Measure - Craft against vice I must apply
96. Measure for Measure - thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm
95. Measure For Measure - Lawful mercy Is nothing kin to foul redemption.
94. Measure for Measure - We must not make a scarecrow of the law
93. Measure For Measure begins - Mortality and mercy in Vienna live in thy tongue and heart.
92. Much Ado About Nothing concludes - Get thee a wife, get thee a wife.
91. Much Ado About Nothing - You have among you killed a sweet and innocent lady.
90. Much Ado About Nothing - I do love nothing in the world so well as you.
89. Much Ado About Nothing - Is it possible that any villainy should be so dear?
88. Much Ado About Nothing - Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey, nonny nonny.
87. Much Ado About Nothing - I would not marry her though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed
86. Much Ado About Nothing Begins - What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
85. Macbeth concludes - Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries “Hold! Enough!”
84. Macbeth - Out, out, brief candle!
83. Macbeth - Double, double toil and trouble;
82. Macbeth - It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
81. Macbeth - A little water clears us of this deed
80. Macbeth - screw your courage to the sticking place And we’ll not fail.
79. Macbeth Begins - Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
78. Richard III Concludes - A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
77. Richard III - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues
76. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 120-150
75. Richard III - Windy attorneys to their clients’ woes
74. Richard III - hie thee from this slaughterhouse
73. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 103 - 119
72. Richard III - Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
71. Richard III - For we tomorrow hold divided councils
70. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 79 - 102
69. Richard III - When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks
68. Richard III - Fool, fool, thou whet’st a knife to kill thyself.
67. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 52-78
66. Richard III - On me, that halts and am misshapen thus?
65. Richard III begins - Now is the winter of our discontent
64. Lenten Bonus - Psalms 33-51
63. Henry V Concludes - I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it
62. Henry V - Where ne’er from France arrived more happy men
61. Lenten Bonus - Coverdale Psalter Psalms 18-32
60. Henry V - Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
59. Henry V - warriors for the working day
58. Bonus - Introduction to Coverdale Psalter; Psalms 1-17
57. Henry V - O God of battles, steel my soldiers’ hearts
56. Henry V - A little touch of Harry in the night
55. Henry V - Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur.
54. Henry V - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
53. Henry V - No king of England if not king of France
52. Henry V - Let us condole the knight, for, lambkins, we will live.
51. Henry V - France being ours, we’ll bend it to our awe Or break it all to pieces
50. Henry V begins - O, for a muse of fire
49. Henry IV Part 2 concludes - I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers
48. Henry IV Part 2 - God save thy Grace, King Hal, my royal Hal
47. Henry IV Part 2 - You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me.
46. Henry IV Part 2 - ’Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb In the dead carrion.
45. Henry IV Part 2 - He cannot so precisely weed this land
44. Henry IV Part 2 - We have heard the chimes at midnight
43. Henry IV Part 2 - but an honester and truer-hearted man—well, fare thee well.
42. Henry IV Part 2 - Let the end try the man
41. Henry IV Part 2 - What trust is in these times?
40. Henry IV Part 2 begins - Why is rumour here?
39. Henry IV Part 1 concludes - The better part of valor is discretion
38. Who hath it [honour]? He that died o’ Wednesday.
37. A Christmas Carol concludes - I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
36. Henry IV Part 1 - I have misused the King’s press damnably
35. Henry IV Part 1 - like a comet I was wondered at
34. A Christmas Carol - I am not the man I was.
33. Henry IV Part 1 - If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked.
32. Henry IV Part 1 - I have sounded the very bass string of humility
31. Christmas Carol - I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.
30. Henry IV Part 1 - Were't not for laughing, I should pity him
29. Henry IV Part 1 - will I imitate the sun
28. Christmas Carol - God bless us every one!
27. Henry IV Part 1 begins - See riot and dishonor stain the brow Of my young Harry
26. Richard II concludes - Mount, mount my soul. Thy seat is on high
25. Christmas Carol 4 - Come in and know me better, man!
24. Christmas Carol 3 - I should like to have given him something
23. Richard II - Once more, Adieu! The rest let sorrow say.
22. Richard II - Bolingbroke hath seized the wasteful king
21. Bonus Christmas Carol - Marley's Ghost
20. Christmas Bonus! - A Christmas Carol begins
19. Richard II - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court
18. Richard II - I see thy glory like a shooting star Fall
17. Richard II - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
16. Richard II - our kingdom's earth should not be soiled
15. Richard II begins - We were not born to sue, but to command
14. Hamlet concludes - The rest is silence.
13. Hamlet - There's a divinity that shapes our ends
12. Hamlet - Alas, poor Yorick!
11. Hamlet - let the great axe fall
10. Hamlet - cruel to be kind
9. Hamlet - Dead for a ducket
8. Hamlet - The Mousetrap
7. Hamlet - lose the name of action
6. Hamlet - Who shall scape whipping?
5. Hamlet - Words, words, words
4. Hamlet - Something is rotten
3. Hamlet - To thine own self be true?
2. Hamlet continued. I must hold my tongue
Episode 1 - Hamlet Begins