{"id":1438,"date":"2009-05-20T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2017-08-19T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:36:30","slug":"best-of-the-bard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1438","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Bard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was telling someone of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/154\">my list of favorite scenes<\/a> this evening, and it made me think of a reading that I was planning to have several years ago.  Instead of choosing one play, I would edit together a collection of the most popular scenes for us to read.  Due to scheduling problems, we weren&#8217;t able to have the reading, but I did send out an invitation.  The invitation was written largely in iambic dimeter (!), and I thought the readers of this site might appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h3>Best of the Bard<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A witches\u2019 brew.  A fiery shrew.  A knavish sprite.  A portly knight.  A maid\u2019s disguise.  A Jew\u2019s surprise.  A bastard\u2019s plan.  Each age of man.  A paper crown.  A motley clown.  A nightmare haunt.  This John of Gaunt.  A guarded door.  A jealous Moor.  A castaway.  St. Crispin\u2019s Day.  <\/p>\n<p>A eulogy.  A balcony.  <\/p>\n<p>The death of kings.  <\/p>\n<p>And other things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the very best of all the scenes, speeches, and sonnets from Shakespeare, hand-picked and edited by yours truly.  Be there &#8230; or not to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was telling someone of my list of favorite scenes this evening, and it made me think of a reading that I was planning to have several years ago. Instead of choosing one play, I would edit together a collection of the most popular scenes for us to read. Due to scheduling problems, we weren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,91,113,122,58,52,123,125,95,25,92,117,3,118,126,93,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-you-like-it","category-hamlet","category-histories","category-julius-caesar","category-king-lear","category-macbeth","category-merchant-of-venice","category-othello","category-poetry","category-reading-group","category-richard-iii","category-romeo-and-juliet","category-shakespeare","category-taming-of-the-shrew","category-tempest","category-the-dream","category-twelfth-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4637,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}