A_Midsummer_Night’s_Dream^_Act_1,_Scene_1,_Line_141-149.

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night; That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth, And ere a man hath power to say “Behold!” The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. MNEMONIC: O, i t w a s i c, W, d, o s d l s t i, M i m a a s, S a a s, s a a d, B a t l i t c n T, i a s, u b h a E, A e a m h p t s “B!” T j o d d d i u. S q b t c t c.

I like 'No Fear Shakespeare!'

Has: 'modern' english to the right is helpful. Act, Scene, line notations are helpful http://nfs.sparknotes.com/msnd/page_12.html Also, like the mnemonic tool I made: http://www.box.net/shared/egpk7bukre94k52nzmxy

YouTube ~ Romeo and Juliet

 

 

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/romeo_juliet/

Shakespearean Comedies(all but one)

These are from 'Theater in Video' website. Found it via my local library links.

http://mplib.ativ.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.hclib.org/video/playlists/view/3435

Shakespearean Tragedies (all but two)

These are from 'Theater in Video' website. Found it via my local library links.

The version of Macbeth is the one I first saw in school--I still think it one of the best(next to Orson Welles). Most are BBC productions -- exception being Sir Lawrence O's Hamlet:

http://mplib.ativ.alexanderstreet.com.ezproxy.hclib.org/video/playlists/view/3434/5