#shakespearesunday

"Alas, what danger will it be to us, Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!" -- As You Like It (I, 3)

“I’ll view the manners of the town, peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings, and then return and sleep within mine inn.” ~ The Comedy of Errors (A1,S2).

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date Sonnet 18

Cheryl's Challenging Rock Climb (static.klipy.com)

Five summers have I spent in furthest Greece, roaming clean through the bounds of Asia. CoE 1.1

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues

Mary Poppins: A Jolly Holiday Song (static.klipy.com)

“for now I am in a holiday humor” Rosalind, As You Like It IV.1

"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work." —HENRY IV, Part I #ShakespeareSunday (Homage to Julie Christie in those "long, hot summer 🌞" scenes in Joseph Losey's 1971 film of "The Go-Between")

"This world's a city full of straying streets..." The Two Noble Kinsman A1 S5

Now by Saint Paul. Richard III #ShakespeareSunday July 2026

"I am too much in the sun" ~ Hamlet (A1,S2).

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. The Merry Wives of Windsor, A3 S2

"His princess, say you, with him?" The Winter's Tale A5 S1

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..." Julius Caesar A3 S2

The roof o’ th’ chamber With golden cherubins is fretted. Cymbeline #ShakespeareSunday Banqueting room at Cardiff Castle, July2026

“There is a world elsewhere” —CORIOLANUS #ShakespeareSunday (Aidan Turner as Poldark riding Seamus along the Cornish cliffs in the eponymous #BBC series)

Lead into the city. Two Noble Kinsmen #ShakespeareSunday July 2026

"This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle..." Richard II A2 S1

'Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines' Sonnet 18 #ShakespeareSunday Summer holidays

“ As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair” Pericles 2.5

In holiday foolery. AYLI 1.3

"Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, and so am come abroad to see the world." - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act 1, Scene 2

"O Sun, thy uprise shall I see no more." ~ Antony and Cleopatra (A4,S12).

"I like this place. And willingly could waste my time in it." As You Like It Act 2, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Summer Holidays

"Why, Paris hath colour enough." ~ Troilus and Cressida (A1,S2).