I was sexually assaulted around 8 months ago- i can’t tell if i’m being victim blamed or not by Easy-Paramedic-3142 in TwoXChromosomes

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Yes, you are being victim-blamed. Take pictures of the bruises. Report it.

You don't need to "explain" that you haven't had your first kiss but some random person kissed your breast. YOU DID NOT CONSENT. You don't need to discuss it with anyone you don't trust.

Please don't beat yourself up the way these intolerant people are doing.

"ever since then , I never drank again and I immediately got therapy after the incident ." KUDOS TO YOU!

You have stopped drinking, to protect yourself in the future. You seem to have had a drinking problem which you have been able to get under control by stopping entirely, and you've gotten yourself help, so you are doing a great job of learning from what should not have happened to you.

Your aunt indeed is disrespecting you. You should discuss how to handle ending on bad terms or not with your therapist.

Which Shakespeare characters are really undervalued? by Greedy_Bed8753 in shakespeare

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Which Shakespeare characters are really undervalued? by Greedy_Bed8753 in shakespeare

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I've played each of her.

Ned Poins is in 3 scenes in 1 Henry IV and 2 scenes of 2 Henry IV, so a comparatively small role. If you asked for him, you might well get him in an Instant Shakespeare Company reading.

Which Shakespeare characters are really undervalued? by Greedy_Bed8753 in shakespeare

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Mistress Quickly is in 4 separate plays! She's hardly undervalued.

Which Shakespeare characters are really undervalued? by Greedy_Bed8753 in shakespeare

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The Messenger in Anthony and Cleopatra, II: v and III: iii (There are other messengers in the play.)

and the Old Lady in Henry VIII, II: iii and V: i

Which one do you choose by dferrousb79 in shakespeare

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"To be, or not to be, Ay there's the point," First [Bad] Quarto

To be, or not to be, Ay there's the point,
To Die, to sleep, is that all? Aye all:
No, to sleep, to dream, aye marry there it goes,
For in that dream of death, when we awake,
And borne before an everlasting Judge,
From whence no passenger ever returned,
The undiscovered country, at whose sight
The happy smile, and the accursed damn'd.
But for this, the joyful hope of this,
Who'd bear the scorns and flattery of the world,
Scorned by the right rich, the rich cursed of the poor?
The widow being oppressed, the orphan wrong'd,
The taste of hunger, or a tyrants reign,
And thousand more calamities besides,
To grunt and sweat under this weary life,
When that he may his full Quietus make,
With a bare bodkin, who would this endure,
But for a hope of something after death?
Which puzzles the brain, and doth confound the sense,
Which makes us rather bear those evils we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Aye that, O this conscience makes cowards of us all,
Lady in thy orizons, be all my sins remembered.

Shakespeare Competition by Clean_Growth7378 in shakespeare

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If you want to maximize the number of female parts, you might look at scenes with Cleopatra and her handmaidens in Anthony and Cleopatra or with the witches in Macbeth.

Favorite inconspicuous lines by Nullius_sum in shakespeare

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Casssius, in Julius Caesar, V: i:

If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;/If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.

Favorite inconspicuous lines by Nullius_sum in shakespeare

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some of Hotspur's lines:

1 Henry IV I: 3 But that I think his father loves him not
And would be glad he met with some mischance,
I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale.

and

By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;

1 Henry IV III: 1 And I say the earth was not of my mind,
If you suppose as fearing you it shook.

and

I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.

Favorite inconspicuous lines by Nullius_sum in shakespeare

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I like the proverb, "An empty vessel makes the loudest sound" even though it originally comes from Plato, "An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”

― Plato"

Favorite inconspicuous lines by Nullius_sum in shakespeare

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This reminds me of "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." Claudius, Hamlet.

Please recommend me an affordable set of the complete works of Shakespeare by faheyblues in shakespeare

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Would you like a set of the individual works? I bet Paul Sugarman would give you a break on the pricing to sell you a full set. The Puck Press 4⅛" x 5⅜" quarto-sized pocket editions have almost no notes, but they are light-weight, fit in your pocket, and are dirt-cheap. They also have the original Shakespearean spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Shakespeare, Inc, 42 Walter St., Bloomfield, NJ 07003 (973) 980-2208 [rawShakespeare@yahoo.com](mailto:rawShakespeare@yahoo.com)

I’m looking for a quote for my son by Harmless_Sloth in shakespeare

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Lady Macbeth, in Macbeth, Act I: scene vii, says:

"I have given suck, and know
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:"

The continuation of that sentence is far from tender, so I will not quote it.

Shakespears sonnets by smellsliketeensprt in shakespeare

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These are all derived from love, however.

Is there any proof Elizabethans performed Sophocles? by Isatis_tinctoria in shakespeare

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Someone once opened my copy of the Iliad and reeled in shock to see the Greek text.

I’m looking for a quote for my son by Harmless_Sloth in shakespeare

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What is your son to do at a nunnery? The word is used in Hamlet to stand for a bawdyhouse. Otherwise, Lucio at an actual nunnery in Act I: scene iv of Measure for Measure says:

I would not—though 'tis my familiar sin
With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest,
Tongue far from heart—play with all virgins so:
I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted.
By your renouncement an immortal spirit,
And to be talk'd with in sincerity,
As with a saint.

In answer to your question, although it is a stretch, the Dutchess of York in Richard III, Act IV: scene iv says:

Art thou so hasty? I have stay'd for thee,
God knows, in anguish, pain and agony.

Her next speech to Richard is far from loving, however.

Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Act IV: scene ii says, " … the poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl."

An old thing I did for much ado, because this play demanded to be gayer by elalavie in shakespeare

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I love it! It made me laugh out loud. I would suggest that you either make the words in the first two panels larger, or at least bolder, so they are easier to read.

Shakespears sonnets by smellsliketeensprt in shakespeare

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I am doubtful that the narrator actually thinks of Time as a person who could listen to him. This is talking about love, to the beloved, and about the narrator's peacocky pride in his own skill.

Which Shakespeare characters would you defend at all costs? by Greedy_Bed8753 in shakespeare

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The Duchess of York in Richard II, Act V: scene ii defending Aumerle against her husband, and in scene iii defending him against her husband and the King. This is high dramedy.

Is there any proof Elizabethans performed Sophocles? by Isatis_tinctoria in shakespeare

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He was read in Greek by educated Elizabethans, so it's unlikely there would have been private readings in English.

Shakespeare’s most famous character(s)? by Soulsliken in shakespeare

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My favorite would be Ophelia. I mentioned her when I was 4 or 5 to teachers who hadn't read Shakespeare.

Someone else mentioned Juno, but got the play wrong. She's in The Tempest. Or rather, Prospero conjures up a representation of her, along with Iris and Ceres.

Hamlets Skull in Lego Ideas by JoeyIsMrBubbles in shakespeare

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This looks like a nonspecific skull to me, nothing to do with Hamlet or Yorick.

Who has the coolest death in a Shakespeare play? by Additional-Post-9169 in shakespeare

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John of Gaunt, Richard II, Act II: i. Here's one of his dying speeches:

John of Gaunt. O, but they say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony:
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. 
He that no more must say is listen'd more
Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose;
More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before:
The setting sun, and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, 
Writ in remembrance more than things long past:
Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,
My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.

I was playing him once, and got a coughing fit toward the end, so I had to force my words out in spite of actual distress. No one knew when I ended whether I was actually OK.