Thursday 11 June 2020

Morning In Anderson And Shakespeare

A Midsummer Tempest, ii.

Sir Malachi Shelgrave:

"'There goes a daybreak wide across the world
"'Which forces pretty stars to flee our sight.
"But oh, those stars were shining infamous
"'Within that chamber which a tyrant kept!
"''Tis pity that you fight for fading night.'" (p. 13)

(Shelgrave has to add a political point.)

But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
-Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1, here.

Those lines stayed in my memory when we saw Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at school in the 1960s.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

You are causing me to think I should regret the lack of interest I've had in Shakespeare's plays! (Smiles)

Ad astra! Sean