quotes from Shakespeare in writers works

[hannah_arendt]

At the very begining I would like to quote two fragments:

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that low`r`d upon our hourse
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried"

(Shakespeare, "Richard III")


"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the edge of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity...."
(Dickens, "A Tale of two cities")



Do you know more Shakesperean words hidden in the works of different writers?

[ennison]

I guess if they are "hidden" they would be hard to spot. I'm sure that as his influence has been so pervasive on the development of English and its literature, there must be Shakespearean language embedded in many texts as it is embedded in everyday speech. I've recently read an American novel called "The Weird Sisters" which is bursting at the seams with Shakespeare.

[Kafka's Crow]

"Like Guildenstern Oak was happy in that he was not over happy." Thomas Hardy Far From the Madding Crowd P114.

I read this line this morning and the lightbulb flashed as I read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead only yesterday.

[hannah_arendt]

Shakespeare was very popular among the writers here in Romanticism (f.ex. J. Słowacki).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_S%C5%82owacki

[cacian]

from Macbeth

In a dark cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.
Enter the Witches.

WITCH.
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
WITCH.
Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
WITCH.
Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!
WITCH.
Round about the caldron go;

then all together:

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

[cacian]

from Macbeth

Witch.
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Witch.
When the hurlyburly ’s done,
When the battle ’s lost and won.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

[hannah_arendt]

Fragments from Macbeth can be found in this polish drama: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kordian

Unfortunately I have never had opportunity to read it in English.

[Chris 73]

The Shakespeare of the horror genre.

“He whisked off her shoes and panties in one movement, wild like an enraged shark. His bulky totem beating a seductive rhythm. Mary's body felt like it was burning, even though the room was properly air-conditioned. They tried all the positions - on top, doggy, and normal.

Exhausted they collapsed onto the recently extended sofa-bed. Then a hell beast ate them.”
― Garth Marenghi, Slicer

I think we can all agree it's pretty self evident here.

[hannah_arendt]

I agree.

[Chris 73]

I thank you.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

At the very begining I would like to quote two fragments:

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that low`r`d upon our hourse
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried"

(Shakespeare, "Richard III")...

....Do you know more Shakesperean words hidden in the works of different writers?

How about a book title example.
John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent

[Foe]

Funny, after all the reading I've done over the years, all I can think of is Hemmingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," but that's from John Donne, not Shakespeare.

One would think that about one-fifth of all titles of published English language literature would allude to The Bard. But, then, one might be deep in his cups on a Saturday ngiht and unable to remember most of the titles one has read.

[Snowqueen]

Thomas Hardy quotes Shakespeare in his preface to Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods. They kill us for their sport”
The whole life of Tess seems to move around it.

Title of Hardy’s other novel Under the Greenwood Tree is taken of Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It.

[Helga]

The Smiths use a quote from Richard III I think in Cemetery Gates

[Lykren]

Another book title - Pale Fire by Nabokov

[Lokasenna]

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is a title taken from Macbeth.

[mona amon]

Another book title - Pale Fire by Nabokov

Nabokov's use of the quote from Timon of Athens is really ingenious and hilarious. The original quote -

The sun’s a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon’s an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears;

Kinbote, translating back to english from a Zemblan translation, comes up with this garbled quote -

The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it.
The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun.
The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.

Of course there's a lot more to it, and talking of garbled quotes, there's this classic from Huckleberry Finn -

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane,
But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep,
Great nature's second course,
And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune
Than fly to others that we know not of.
There's the respect must give us pause:
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The law's delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take,
In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black,
But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns,
Breathes forth contagion on the world,
And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i' the adage,
Is sicklied o'er with care,
And all the clouds that lowered o'er our housetops,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. But soft you, the fair Ophelia:
Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws,
But get thee to a nunnery--go!