![]() ![]() All that to express her love for her dead brother and to keep his memory fresh and lasting.’ Not even the air will see her face in public for seven summers but, like a nun, she is determined to wear a veil and weep salt tears once a day in private. ![]() ‘Instead, I have to give you this message – from her handmaid. ![]() ‘I have to tell you, my lord, that they wouldn’t allow me in,’ said Valentine. He looked up, his face bright with interest as Valentine, another of his companions, came walking through the garden. In that instant I was turned into a hart, and ever since then my desires have pursued me like fierce and cruel hounds.’ ‘When I first saw Olivia it seemed that she had the power to purify the air of all its evil vapours. Oh!’ he exclaimed melodramatically, which made his attendants catch each others’ eyes again. ‘That’s exactly what I’m doing.’ He placed his hand on his breast. ‘Do you want to go hunting, my lord,’ he said. One of them went and sat on the wall beside him. His eyes had fallen on a woman and since then he had been like this – sad, restless, talking nonsense. Their friend and master was being quite pathetic. His companions signalled their amusement to each other behind his back. Love takes so many forms that nothing can compete with it.’ ‘How lively and invulnerable you are that, even though you have such a huge capacity – like the sea – nothing enters into you, no matter how important and powerful, without becoming insignificant within a minute. It’s not as sweet now as it was before.’ He walked to the end of the garden and climbed up on to the low wall. He sat listening for a few minutes more then stood up suddenly. Oh, it struck my ear like the sweet sound of a breeze blowing gently across a bank of violets, stealing their fragrance and bringing perfumes of their own.’ ‘Give me too much of it,’ said Orsino, ‘so that it will become sickening to me and my appetite for it die.’ The musicians began, and after a while Orsino held up his hand. When he spoke they prepared to play again. ![]() The musicians had come to the end of their recital and were looking at him for their instructions. He sat in the garden of his palace, high on a hill overlooking the sandy Illyrian coast, his companions and servants surrounding him. He was in love and the music was like food, fuelling his feelings. ‘If music be the food of love, play on!’ Orsino, the young Duke of Illyria, sighed. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. ![]()
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