Love's Labor Lost, Act V, Scene I

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps

----Moth

He could have been speaking of academic prose.

Romeo and Juliet #1

O she doth teach the torches to burn bright

- Romeo

Midsummer Night's Dream #2

...a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings

---Lysander, Act II, Scene II

Between enough and too much, there is Herzenslust

Richard the Third #2

I have taken liberties, as the drowned Clarence is actually offstage.

I repent me that the Duke is slain.

– Second Murderer

So do not I. Go, coward as thou art.

Well, I'll go hide the body in some hole,

Til that the Duke give order for his burial.

And when I have my mead I will away,

For this will out and then I may not stay.

– First Murderer

– King Richard the Third, Act I, Scene IV

Which one repents?

Richard the Third #1

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,

Nor made to court an amorous looking glass

...since I cannot prove a lover,

To entertain these fair well-spoken days,

I am determined to prove a villain,

And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

– King Richard the Third, Act I, Scene I

Do people really prance around delighted with their own evil? My own experience is that people who do the worst things are those most unquestioningly convinced of their own virtue. I do think this royal cloak would hide any hunchback (I have read that it may have been a war wound, not a birth defect, that caused Richard's ungainliness).

1 from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

- Oberon, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, Scene 1

Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7

One woe doth tread upon another's heel.

So fast they follow: your sister's drowned,

Laertes.

    - Gertrude

Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2

Give me some light - away!

                       Claudius to servants

The third season of the current Doctor Who has a very nice episode concerning a race of witches using a Shakespeare play as an incantation to revive their lost race, based on the power of Shakespeare's language. It was partly shot in the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London.

Music

"If music be the food of love, play on, give me an excess of it: that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. "

Shakespeare,Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1

File under "does that work?"