After a bunch of people liked my St. Crispin’s Masterpost, I thought it would be good to collect all my stuff in one place so you can find it more easily and, well, so I don’t forget what I’ve posted!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me if there are any broken/wrong links or missing posts. I will try to get this as up to date as I can before adding any new clips so please bear with me as that may take some time. All new posts will have a link back to here so it will now be easier to compare versions!
–Comedies and Romances—
As You Like It:
“All the world’s a stage”
Alan Rickman
The Comedy of Errors:
“I to the world am like a drop of water/ That in the ocean seeks another drop.”
David Tennant and Alan Cox
Cymbeline:
“The crickets sing, and man’s o’er-labour’d sense repairs itself by rest.”
Anton Lesser and Emma Fielding
The Merchant of Venice:
“Well, tell me now, what lady is the same to whom you swore a secret pilgrimage that you today promised to tell me of?”
Anthony Nicholls and Jeremy Brett
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d”
Ralph Fiennes, Emma Fielding, Haydn Gwynne, Gemma Jones, Lynn Collins, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom, Joan Plowright, Juliet Aubrey, Natalie Thomas Ellen Terry
A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
“It shall be call’d ‘Bottom’s Dream,’ because it hath no bottom.”
Brian Glover, James Cagney, Roger Allam, Kevin Kline, Sam Bensusen, Desmond Barrit, Paul Rogers
Much Ado About Nothing:
“Love me? Why, it must be requited!”
David Tennant, Samuel West, Sam Waterston, Richard Monette, Kenneth Branagh, David Tennant (BBCRadio), Charles Edwards
“Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?”
Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes, Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Samuel West and Saskia Reeves, David Tennant and Samantha Spiro, Ben Crystal and Rebecca Pownall, Charles Edwards and Eve Best
The Taming of the Shrew:
“Good Morrow Kate, for that’s your name I hear.”
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, John Cleese and Sarah Badel, Marc Singer and Fredi Olster, Colm Feore and Goldie Semple, Roger Allam and Frances Barber Bob Peck and Cheryl Campbell
The Tempest:
“Where should this music be? I’ th’ air, or th’ earth?”
Ian McKellen, Scott Handy, and Benedict Cumberbatch
“Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises”
Richard McCabe, Miles Potter, Djimon Hounsou, Kenneth Branagh at the Olympics
“Now does my project gather to a head”
Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance
Twelfth Night:
“‘Tis but fortune; all is fortune.”
David Tennant
–Histories—
King John:
“Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!”
Alan Cumming
Richard II:
“Alack, why am I sent for to a king, before I have shook off the regal thoughts wherewith I reign’d?”
Samuel West and Damian Lewis, Rupert Graves and John Nettleton, Richard Pasco and Ian Richardson
“I have been studying how I may compare/ This prison where I live unto the world.”
Ben Crystal, David Birney, Mark Rylance, Ben Whishaw, Derek Jacobi, Rupert Graves, Samuel West
Henry IV part I:
“How now Kate? I must leave you within these two hours.”
Tim Pigott-Smith and Michele Dotrice, Alan Cox and Jane Slavin, Joe Armstrong and Michelle Dockery, Sam Crane and Lorna Stuart, Sean Connery and Patricia Heneghan
“A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too.”
Jamie Parker and Roger Allam
“Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the particulars of my life.”
Jamie Glover and Richard Griffiths, Robert Hardy and Frank Pettingell, David Gwillim and Anthony Quayle, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale, Keith Baxter and Orson Welles, Ian Holm and Hugh Griffith, Jamie Parker and Roger Allam
Henry V:
“Once more unto the breach!”
Robert Hardy, Simon Russell Beale, Samuel West, Jamie Glover, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, David Gwillim, Tom Hiddleston, Benjamin O'Mahony, Lewis Waller, Frank Benson
“O God of Battles”
Tom Hiddleston
“This day is called the feast of St. Crispin”
Simon Russell Beale, Samuel West, Robert Hardy, Laurence Olivier, Jamie Glover, David Gwillim, Tom Hiddleston, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance
“I was not angry since I came to France”
Tom Hiddleston
“Fair Katherine, and most fair, will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms such as will enter at a lady’s ear and plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?”
Geoffrey Streatfeild and Alexia Healy, Jamie Glover and Saira Todd, Robert Hardy and Judi Dench, David Gwillim and Jocelyne Boisseau, Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, Laurence Olivier and Renee Asherton, Samuel West and Cathy Sara
Henry VI part III:
“This battle fares like to the morning’s war.”
David Tennant
Act 5, scene 6
David Tennant and David Troughton
Richard III:
“Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.”
Kenneth Branagh
“Stay, you that bear the corpse and set it down.”
Antony Sher and Penny Downie
“Despair and Die!”
Naxos Audiobook Cast
“I love myself. Wherefore? For any good/ that I myself have done unto myself?”
Kenneth Branagh, David Troughton, Ron Cook, Paul Daneman, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm
–Tragedies—
Hamlet:
“Where wilt thou lead me? Speak: I’ll go no further”
Kenneth Branagh and John Gielgud, Anton Lesser and Geoffrey Whitehead
“I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth.”
Anton Lesser, Richard Burton, Simon Russell Beale, John Gielgud, Campbell Scott, David Tennant, Derek Jacobi, Adam Long, Kenneth Branagh, Ben Crystal
“O rose of May, dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia…”
Ellen Terry, Imogen Stubbs and Damien Lewis, Emma Fielding and Jamie Glover, Celia Johnson and Hugh Burden,
Julius Caesar:
“Brutus, I do observe you now of late. I have not from your eyes that gentleness and show of love that I was wont to have.”
Paterson Joseph and Cyril Nri, John Bowe and Geoffrey Whitehead, Paul Rhys and Pip Carter, Jason Robards and Richard Johnson, James Mason and John Gielgud, John Wood and Patrick Stewart Nicholas Farrell and Colin McFarlane Edward Hardwicke and Ian Hogg
King Lear:
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law/ My services are bound.”
Kenneth Branagh
“Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones.”
Michael Hordern, Paul Scofield, Laurence Olivier, Ian McKellen (Film), Ian McKellen (Live), Trevor Peacock
Macbeth:
“Here’s a knocking indeed!”
David Tennant
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow”
David Morrissey, Antony Sher, James Marsters, Orson Welles, Hugh Ross, Sam Worthington, Patrick Stewart, Nicol Williamson, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, Ken Stott, Sean Pertwee, Jon Finch, Simon Russell Beale
Othello:
“Most potent, grave, and reverend signors”
Adrian Lester
“Thus do I ever make my fool my purse”
Rory Kinnear and Tom Robertson
“Thanks! you the valiant of this warlike isle that so approve the moor.”
Tom Hiddleston and Kelly Reilly
“Reputation, reputation, reputation!”
Tom Hiddleston and Ewan McGregor
“O Beware, my lord, of jealousy: it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
Eamonn Walker, Tim McInnerny, and Zoe Tapper, Hugh Quarshie, Anton Lesser, and Emma Fielding, John Kani, Richard Haines, and Joanna Weinberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ewan McGregor, and Kelly Reilly
“Witness that here Iago doth give up/ The execution of his wit, hands, heart/ to wrong’d Othello’s service!”
Willard White and Ian McKellen, Lenny Henry and Conrad Nelson, Hugh Quarshie and Anton Lesser, Don Warrington and David Threlfall, Eamonn Walker and Tim McInnerny, Anthony Hopkins and Bob Hoskins, Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh, John Kani and Richard Haines, Laurence Olivier and Frank Finlay, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor
“Now will I question Cassio of Bianca”
Ewan McGregor, Tom Hiddleston, and Chiwetel Ejiofor
“My mother had a maid call’d Barbary.”
Irene Jacob and Anna Patrick, Anne-Marie Duff and Suzanne Bertish, Imogen Stubbs and Zoe Wanamaker, Jessica Harris and Sara Poyzer, Penelope Wilton and Rosemary Leach, Maggie Smith and Joyce Redman, Kelly Reilly and Michelle Fairley, Natalie Thomas and Joan Walker
Bonus!
The Cassio Rap from Othello: The Remix
Reputation: The Branneston Edit
Romeo and Juliet:
“O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.”
Anton Lesser, Derek Jacobi, John McEnery, Colm Feore, Philip Cumbus, Anthony Andrews, John Barrymore, David Tennant
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?”
Ian McKellen and Francesca Annis, Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond
Titus Andronicus:
“Come, come Lavinia. Look, thy foes are bound”
David Troughton
–Sonnets—
116 – Juliet Stevenson