As we bound into 2010 it's customary to make some weak-willed resolution for the year ahead. How are you going to change? Drink less? Read more? Be kinder?
I'm sure that many of Shakespeare's characters would also have resolutions to make. Here are a few of my favorites:
Juliet: "Stay off the drugs."
Hamlet: "Try and get things done."
Lady Macbeth: "Be happy with what I've got."
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Richard III – family first
Macbeth:Ignore anything witches have to say.
Caesar-listen to my wife and stay home from work
Claudius: Stay away from brother’s wife!
Beatrice & Benedick; “Don’t fight!”
Beatrice & Benedick; “Don’t fight!”
Henry VI; “Stay out of foreign quarrels.”
Falstaff; ” Get home before the chimes at midnight.”
King Lear; “Behave yourself!”
King Lear: I’ll never let my kids sweet-talk me again.
Othello: I’ll never give an ear to anyone slandering my wife again!
Polonius: This above all: to thine own self be true
Polonius: Keep my nose out of other peoples’ business.
Hamlet: Stop being such a wishy-washy pinhead!
Caius Marcius (Coriolanus): “I will lighten up and show some respect to the poor–after all it’s an election year this year.”
Polonius (hamlet): “No more eavesdropping for me–and I need to spend more time supervising my kids. Ophelia’s gone on some guy and Laertes looks mad enough to kill someone…”
Hamlet (Hamlet)L “About that swordsmanship–practice, practice practice! Also, I want to lose some weight, and
then stop worrying about losing dad all the time–Note to myself–be kinder to Ophelia too.”
Dromio of Ephesus (Comedy of Errors): “Wear an ID bracelet–who wants to be mistaken for my rascally brother all the time?”
Imogen (Winter’s Tale): “Sweetly creep into my lover imagination while in a shift–in other words I need to make shit to capture his attention more often! Note o myself: check sexy shift collection tomorrow”