6 Famous Quotations from Shakespeare
I’ll share with you some of the most famous short quotations from Shakespeare’s plays, with a little bit of background information to the quotation, and something about the character who is speaking. We will cover quotations from Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and Richard III. However much, or however little you already know about Shakespeare, I hope I can encourage you to explore further, by reading one or more of his plays, watching one of the many film versions, or even doing some performing! www.engvid.com/6-famous-quota...
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In this lesson:
00:00 Introduction to Shakespeare
01:37 "That one may smile and smile and be a villain" - Hamlet
04:58 "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
07:38 "When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." - King Lear
10:45 "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." - The Merchant of Venice
12:52 "When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married." - Much Ado About Nothing
15:29 "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" - Richard III
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Great! Thank you!
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I`d like to be returned to my younger years, to the university, and start listening to such brilliant lectures. Thank you, Jill!
Thanks. For me it was like returning to my childhood. In the USSR Shakespear's plays were often on TV and radio. I used to see lots of screen adaptations as well as ballets and theatrical performances
The best Teacher i've ever seen, you're such an inspiration for me.
I love you so much
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If you liked this video, I’m sure you’ll love my videos too. Thank you 😇
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It is a really interesting information. Thanks.
Thanks Gill 🤗 you're the best. I've breafly studied Shakespeare's plays at university and I've really appreciated your way of summarizing them through quotes. Side note: I really like that you write your notes on a classic whiteboard
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It's blackboard that classical, actually😊
In France, I have never met such a good teacher like you during my studies ; I'm surprised to understand this video although my level is bad. You are clear and interesting. You made me want to learn from the begining. Thank you.
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No you are smart not otherwise
Your pronunciation is wonderful! Clear, at all for me. It's a pleasure listening to you. Thank you for your work! An excellent video! I love English language! 📚
Gosh! Gill, you've heard my pleading for English literature lessons! It's awesome! Thanks a lot!
You are incredible, love your videos and you must know we love you! 🥰🤙
I'm fasting in Ramadan and before the fast we take a breakfast n watching while doing that...makes it surreal
I loved the magical Mid-Summer's Night's Dream followed by Merchant of Venice. The complex Hamlet and saw the play too. I think Shakespeare was one of the best poets of our times and I will always be in awe of him. Thank you Gill for your video today. A good Teacher always makes the subject more interesting 😎
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Appreciate it
Thank you very much for this awesome lesson. Shakespeare is great. I have read many works of it, but it is always important to review them.
Thank you very much for this beautiful and gentle talk about these six fantastic Shakespeare quotes. Brilliant sharings! 🎉❤
For my final very long paper, I did and Operetic Study of some Shakespearean plays that were used for the libretto in various Operas. It was Lovely to work on: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A midsummer Nights’ dream, King Lear, perhaps Richard iii- can’t remember all now, but your way of talking brought back to me the everyday kind of wisdom that abounds In Shakespeare. Thank you so very much, Nancy
You're the best. Thanks for this lesson, I'm going to start reading Shakespeare. Greetings from Mexico.
Amazing lesson. Thank you very much Gill I really appreciate it. ✨🌸✨
Hi pretty Gill! Thank you so much for the class about Shakespeare's influence on English.
Thanks,Ma'am Gill,for the lesson on wonderful quotations by the eminent playwright William Shakespeare ! Though the plays of Shakespeare,are not quite easy to understand,due to the usage of the ancient style of literary language,unless we are properly guided by a professor of English ! When we know the contents of play,we start enjoying it ! Thanks 😃
Delightful lesson! Thank you for this lovely idea, talking about Shakespeare's plays ❤ My favorite one is by far Much ado about nothing.
As a Brazilian English teacher, I am so grateful for all that precious content. 😊
Thank you Gill! You have rekindled my interest in Shakespear. I've read three of Shakespear's Plays: 1) Romeo and Juliet 2) The Merchant of Venice, and 3) Macbeth. Next week I will go to look for "Much Ado About Nothing". I like The Oxford Shakespear Editions. Once again, thank you! You make reading Shakespear's Plays really pleasurable. Albert
Professor Gill thank you very much for this wonderfull video about Shakespeare and all your work is enriching . I'm a Brazilian student who loves the English language and UK culture specially England culture ..☺💝
I love this classes early in the morning for me. Years ago I wanted to show off my English with friends and learnt by hart a little verse from Shakespeare’s Midsummer when Puk says (more or less): Two spotted snakes with double tongue, thorny hedghog be not seen, knwets and blind worms do not wrong, be not near to my fairy Queen. Thanks for your lovely lessons!
Thanks a million for reminding me my college days. Great way of explaining Shakespeare! Will be getting back to you.
Thank you so much for describing so nicely the quations from Shakespeare's Plas. You speaks very nicely.
It is so good to hear you giving classes. Congratulations. It's seems so Simple.
Hi Gill! It's always been a great experience to watch your lessons.It's because,your lessons are full of knowledge,your unique presentation and your energetic and refreshing voice. Shakeapeare is all time great dramatist. Thanks a lot.
I don’t have enough words to express my grateful for this beautiful class Thanks Gill
After long phase of time, I am so glad to hear your mild and ear sooting voice. Endless respect and love for you, Madam.
Thanks for making Shakespearean English easy for people like me to understand better. Your pronunciation is really good for us Asians to understand.
My wish is every teacher around world learning to explain as this teacher as do. Great Video thanks greetings from Cuba🙌🏽
I missed a teacher like you in my childhood.
Your videos about Shakespeare are very interesting! I have read some of these plays.
Good morning. You are a great person. You explained Shakespeare in a clear and concise way. This presentation can be easily used for international audiences. I love watching your videos about literature. Have a good day!
Thanks a bunch.
Thanks from 🇯🇵 I enjoyed your video. It was very helpful 💐
As a Mexican English teacher I appreciate your very interesting lessons.
I loved this class, Gil. It is interesting to notice the class prejudice against the poor people who lived in the villages. The word 'villain' primarily refers to the villager. People who lived in villages were mostly poor (serfs) in the Middle Ages, and even later, with the rise of the bourgeoisie. Therefore, poverty often impelled them to commit crimes, such as stealing animals belonging to the nobility and the clergy, which is why they were labeled as evil and why the evil characters in the tales are still called villains today, without us noticing the historical weight on the word.
Dear Gill, your Lesson are so useful, and so pleasant....Thank you!
Gill is a wonderful teacher. God bless you for the work.
For me ,the literary works of 'The Bard of Avon ' are and will always be the greatest works of all time ; complex though. Thank you Gill for delivering such a wonderful lesson today.
I respect your teaching method and honesty, Ma'am.
Friendly advice for all of the English learners out there 🌍...you will find it much easier to memorize words and phrases if you physically practice pronouncing them out loud (or reading them out loud). 🗣 The more you exercise your physical senses (sense of hearing, sense of sight, etc.) the more speaking English will feel like an experience, which will be much more difficult to forget. 🧠🇨🇦
Thank you Gill. I learn a lot from you and I enjoy your videos from Brazil.
Thank teacher so much. Have a great weekend 👍
Oh, Gill, I was hoping you'd say King Lear's line once or twice more!! Love your soft voice and when you recite it's lovely!!
I'm enjoying every single video in your channel, thank you so much ❤️
Gill is the Teacher everyone would have wanted
Thanks. You are one of my favourite. Is a really pleasure watching you!!
I saw the Midsummers night dream, play, a long time ago in a botanical garden. Wonderful, I had not read it before, but it was a beautifully played.
What a wonderful bunch of quotations! Thank you for the great lesson.
So interesting ❤❤❤❤❤love that u inject your humour into these learning videos
Hello, Dear Gill, it was lovely to see your explanation, and always you are a fine Lady and very proper, really, it was very interesting, also, I may say that would be very nice to have a recomendación of one of Shakespeare plays to study and understand better. Thankfully and greetings from a Mexican person living in Japan.
@engvidGill
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Hi - many thanks for your kind comments. I recommend one of Shakespeare's comedies, Much Ado About Nothing - in addition to reading it, you might like to watch a film version, eg there's one directed by Kenneth Branagh. All the best for your studies :-)
Hi Gill, I do enjoy your smiling voice explaining the quotes from great shakespeare's. Thank you.
It's really a great pleasure just to listen to you, dear Gill! Thanks a lot! ❤
Thank you dear Gil for this excellent session. You excel at excellence..!!
Such a pleasure to listen to you!
It's very interessing,I love you videos,you are incredible,GOD JOB!!! ^^
Your pronunciation is so clear and lovely. Love it !
I love all of your videos!!!
Good morning teacher!! Glad to see you 🙏🕊️💓🌷❤️🤗
Brilliant as always. Thanks heaps Gill
Glad to Gill you doing young and sweet still🎉keep shining Gill🙏👏
An absolute delight!
A born teacher. I would like to study Shakespeare. Very nice Gill
Thank you for your work. It is such a great educating video. And you manner of speaking is so refreshing and calming at the same time.
Marvellous, Gill, thank you
Hello from Saint-Petersburg! Thank you very much for such an interesting, easy and at the same time informative video. I really like this mixing of language learning, literature and just the pleasure of immersing in art. I binge read Shakespear’s plays when I was a girl of about 12 years old. They was translated into Russian of course. I don’t risk to read these plays in the original. It seems to me interesting that the quote from Richadr the third translated into russian sounds like “A horse! A horse! A half kingdom for a horse!” I don’t know why.
@engvidGill
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Hi - thank you for your kind comments. The translation is interesting - when Richard III calls out "My kingdom for a horse" I think he must have been offering all of his kingdom - though of course this was the character in Shakespeare's play, and I don't think there's any evidence that the real Richard III said that. Here is an interesting link: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/richard-iii-my-kingdom-for-a-horse/
Thank you Ford this great Lessons!
I really love your classes. Thanks for your job. ❤
Very interesting gentle introduction to Shakespeare . Thankyou.
I like how they talk about histrians
I love very much these book quotations. Very good explained through the history context. Thanks
Thank you a lot for you such lessons. ❤
I love you so much, thank you for your work ❤
That was very helpful and interesting short review! Thank you!
I love this kind of videos!!!!!
Thank you so much Gill! You are the Teacher as the Teacher should be! Wonderful approach of teaching, excellent stuff!
Thank you Teacher Gill! Very helpful!
Hi, Gill! Thank you for the lesson about Shakespeare! I'd like to know more about verse metrics! As a suggestion for some future video on poetry if you'd like it! Thank you!
Thank you Gill!
Thank you! I am learning so much ❤
I love all your videos but especially the ones about literature
Thank you so much Miss Gill, you gave me an excellent way to access to Shakespeare. Before, I once read book of Merchant of Venice n I found it quite hard.
Your teaching style is a beauty. Thanks a lot. Learning must be interesting. I'm happy for the quotations. Great.
Thanks for the class. I loved it
Thank you very much for this helpful lesson ❤
Thank you Gill.. I do appreciate your lessons and admire your received pronunciation. You sound so British ! Listening to you is a real pleasure. Greetings from Poland ! Pozdrawiam z Polski.
I love this Thank you very very much!
Vraiment exceptionnel: à la fois cela donne très envie de lire ces grands auteurs, et on a le sentiment de pouvoir tout comprendre tellement c’ est clairement exposé et dit : immense merci ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Excellent as usual ❤
I love your energy sooo much Miss. Really allll respect for you You are an amazing teacher. I wish all the best for you❤
Thank you very much! I love it💙❤️
I'm myself a qualified English teacher. I've just returned fron England. I stayed in Northern Ireland for a fortnight and another fortnight in London. To heat your English is like a bubble soft bath. A pleasure.
Great presentation! And so interesting 👍
Thank you, it is a great lesson!
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Beautiful explanation ❤
Great quotations, some of them are in my favourite list. Dear Gill, do you have a video about English idioms?
@engvidGill
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Hi - yes, I have several videos that cover idioms - I suggest you type "idiom" into the search area (magnifying glass symbol, top right) on my main channel page, and you'll find a list of them :-)