윌리엄 셰익스피어는 영국이 낳은 최고의 국민 극작가이자 시인으로
많은 사람들에게 인정과 사랑을 오랫동안 받아 왔다.
그가 태어나고 작고한 날짜와 원인을 정확히 알 수 없지만,
기록에 따르면, 그는 1564년 4월 26일에 스트랫포드-어펀-에이번에서 영세를 받았고,
1616년 4월 23일에 타계한 것으로 추정되어서 올해가 그의 서거 400주년을 맞이했다.
따라서 영국은 물론, 세계 각국에서 이를 기념하는 연극공연과 발레, 음악회가 일제히 열리고 있다.
실제로 내가 활동하는 합창단도 지난 3월에 셰익스피어의 글을 가사에
4년 전에 의뢰애서 새로히 작곡된 작품을 무대에 올려서 그의 서거 400주년을 기념하기도 했다.
중고등 시절엔 고어체로 된 그의 희곡이 생소해서 공감하기에 벅차기만 해서
학교에서 다루는 커리큘럼이 아니였다면 피하고 싶었던 반갑지 않은 숙제에 불과했다.
하지만, 세월이 흐르면서, 500년 전에 쓰여진 그의 글 속에 나오는 등장인물이나 줄거리는
21세기에서도 여전히 적용이 될 뿐 아니라,
그가 쓴 연극 공연을 직접 감상하기도 하고, 천천히 소리 내어서 배우인양 대사를 읊다보면
그 작품 속에서 그동안 내 자신이 겪은 많은 일들과 사람들에게 그대로 적용될 수 있기도 하고
삶의 진리가 절절히 묻어 있음이 크게 공감이 되어서
이제는 손에 닿을만큼 가까운 곳에
그의 작품들을 두고선 매일 몇 페이지씩 곱씹어 보면서
만약 내가 작품의 주인공과 비슷한 처지에 놓이게 되면
어떻게 처신을 할지 생각을 할 기회를 던져 주는
그야말로 말 그대로 시간과 장소를 초월하는 클래식 작품들임에 틀림이 없다.
셰익스피어의 서거 400주년을 맞이하면서
인생의 쓴맛과 단맛을 시어로 표현한 그의 주옥같은 글귀를
한 군데에 모아 보아 두었는데, 정작 한달이 지나서야 올려 본다.
아래에 나오는 글귀와 phrase는 영어권에서 사는 사람들에게 평소에 잘 인용되기도 하고
현대의 영화, 연극의 대사에서도 자주 등장하는 것만 봐도
셰익스피어가 세상을 떠난지 400년이 지나도 여전히 유효하다는 것을 보여준다.
Sonnet 18
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date".
Hamlet
To be, or not to be: that is the question". - (Act III, Scene I).
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". - (Act I, Scene III).
"This above all:
to thine own self be true". - (Act I, Scene III).
"Though this be madness,
yet there is method in't.". - (Act II, Scene II).
"That it should come to this!". - (Act I, Scene II).
"There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so". - (Act II, Scene II).
"What a piece of work is man!
how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!
in form and moving how express and admirable!
in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! ". - (Act II, Scene II).
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks". - (Act III, Scene II).
"In my mind's eye". - (Act I, Scene II).
"A little more than kin, and less than kind". - (Act I, Scene II).
"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king". - (Act II, Scene II).
"And it must follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man". - (Act I, Scene III).
"This is the very ecstasy of love". - (Act II, Scene I).
"Brevity is the soul of wit". - (Act II, Scene II).
"Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar,
but never doubt I love". - (Act II, Scene II).
"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind". - (Act III, Scene I).
"Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?" - (Act III, Scene II).
"I will speak daggers to her,
but use none". - (Act III, Scene II).
"When sorrows come,
they come not single spies,
but in battalions". - (Act IV, Scene V).
As You Like It
"All the world 's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts" - (Act II, Scene VII).
"Can one desire too much of a good thing?". - (Act IV, Scene I).
"I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it" - (Act II, Scene IV).
"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness
through another man's eyes!" - (Act V, Scene II).
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind!
Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude".(Act II, Scene VII).
"True is it that we have seen better days". - (Act II, Scene VII).
"For ever and a day". - (Act IV, Scene I).
"The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows himself to be a fool". - (Act V, Scene I).
King Richard III
"Now is the winter of our discontent". - (Act I, Scene I).
"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!". - (Act V, Scene IV).
"Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
devised at first to keep the strong in awe". - (Act V, Scene III).
"So wise so young, they say,
do never live long". - (Act III, Scene I).
"Off with his head!" - (Act III, Scene IV).
"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told". - (Act IV, Scene IV).
"The king's name is a tower of strength". - (Act V, Scene III).
"The world is grown so bad,
that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch". - (Act I, Scene III).
Romeo and Juliet
"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?". - (Act II, Scene II).
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" . - (Act II, Scene II).
"Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow." - (Act II, Scene II).
"What's in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet". - (Act II, Scene II).
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast". - (Act II, Scene III).
"Tempt not a desperate man". - (Act V, Scene III).
"For you and I are past our dancing days" . - (Act I, Scene V).
"O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright". - (Act I, Scene V).
"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear" . - (Act I, Scene V).
"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
that I might touch that cheek!". - (Act II, Scene II).
"Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty". - (Act IV, Scene II).
The Merchant of Venice
"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see".
"If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
if you poison us, do we not die?
and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - (Act III, Scene I).
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose". - (Act I, Scene III).
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind". - (Act I, Scene III).
The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Why, then the world 's mine oyster" - (Act II, Scene II).
"This is the short and the long of it". - (Act II, Scene II).
"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is". - (Act III, Scene II).
"As good luck would have it". - (Act III, Scene V).
Measure for Measure
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt". - (Act I, Scene IV).
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall". - (Act II, Scene I).
"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope". - (Act III, Scene I).
King Henry IV, Part I
"He will give the devil his due". - (Act I, Scene II).
"The better part of valour is discretion". - (Act V, Scene IV).
King Henry IV, Part II
"He hath eaten me out of house and home". - (Act II, Scene I).
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown". - (Act III, Scene I).
"A man can die but once". - (Act III, Scene II).
"I do now remember the poor creature, small beer". - (Act II, Scene II).
"We have heard the chimes at midnight". - (Act III, Scene II)
King Henry IV, Part III
"The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on". - (Act II, Scene II).
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer". - (Act V, Scene VI).
King Henry the Sixth, Part I
"Delays have dangerous ends". - (Act III, Scene II).
"Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed". - (Act V, Scene II).
King Henry the Sixth, Part II
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". - (Act IV, Scene II).
"Small things make base men proud". - (Act IV, Scene I).
"True nobility is exempt from fear". - (Act IV, Scene I).
King Henry the Sixth, Part III
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose".- (Act III, Scene III).
Taming of the Shrew
"I 'll not budge an inch". - (Induction, Scene I).
Timon of Athens
"We have seen better days". - (Act IV, Scene II).
Julius Caesar
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him". - (Act III, Scene II).
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me". - (Act I, Scene II).
"A dish fit for the gods". - (Act II, Scene I).
"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war". - (Act III, Scene I).
"Et tu, Brute!" - (Act III, Scene I).
"Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
but in ourselves, that we are underlings". - (Act I, Scene II).
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more". - (Act III, Scene II).
"Beware the ides of March". - (Act I, Scene II).
"This was the noblest Roman of them all". - (Act V, Scene V).
"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff". - (Act III, Scene II).
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous". (Act I, Scene II).
"For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men". - (Act III, Scene II).
"As he was valiant, I honor him;
but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" . - (Act III, Scene II).
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
it seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
will come when it will come". - (Act II, Scene II).
Macbeth
"There 's daggers in men's smiles". - (Act II, Scene III).
"what 's done is done".- (Act III, Scene II).
"I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none". - (Act I, Scene VII).
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair". - (Act I, Scene I).
"I bear a charmed life". - (Act V, Scene VIII).
"Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." - (Act I, Scene V).
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine,
making the green one red" - (Act II, Scene II).
"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." - (Act IV, Scene I).
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" - (Act V, Scene I)
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - (Act V, Scene I).
"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle 's lost and won". - (Act I, Scene I).
"If chance will have me king,
why, chance may crown me". - (Act I, Scene III).
"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it;
he died as one that had been studied in his death
to throw away the dearest thing he owed,
as 't were a careless trifle". - (Act I, Scene IV).
"Look like the innocent flower,
but be the serpent under't." - (Act I, Scene V).
"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent,
but only vaulting ambition,
which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other." - (Act I, Scene VII).
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?" - (Act II, Scene I).
"Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow,
a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more:
it is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." - (Act V, Scene V).
King Lear
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
to have a thankless child!" - (Act I, Scene IV).
"I am a man more sinned against than sinning". - (Act III, Scene II).
"My love's more richer than my tongue". - (Act I, Scene I).
"Nothing will come of nothing." - (Act I, Scene I).
"Have more than thou showest,
speak less than thou knowest,
lend less than thou owest". - (Act I, Scene IV).
"The worst is not, So long as we can say,
'This is the worst.' " . - (Act IV, Scene I).
Othello
"‘T’is neither here nor there." - (Act IV, Scene III).
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at". - (Act I, Scene I).
"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
is the next way to draw new mischief on". - (Act I, Scene III).
"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief". - (Act I, Scene III).
Antony and Cleopatra
"My salad days, when I was green in judgment." - (Act I, Scene V).
Cymbeline
"The game is up." - (Act III, Scene III).
"I have not slept one wink.". - (Act III, Scene III).
Twelfth Night
"Be not afraid of greatness:
some are born great, some achieve greatness
and some have greatness thrust upon them". - (Act II, Scene V).
"Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better" . - (Act III, Scene I).
The Tempest
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
rounded with a little sleep".
King Henry the Fifth
"Men of few words are the best men" . - (Act III, Scene II).
A Midsummer Night's Dream
"The course of true love never did run smooth". - (Act I, Scene I).
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind". - (Act I, Scene I).
Much Ado About Nothing
"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it". - (Act III, Scene II).
Titus Andronicus
"These words are razors to my wounded heart". - (Act I, Scene I).
The Winter's Tale
"What 's gone and what 's past help should be past grief" . - (Act III, Scene II).
"You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely". - (Act I, Scene I).
Taming of the Shrew
"Out of the jaws of death". - (Act III, Scene IV).
"Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges". - (Act V, Scene I).
"For the rain it raineth every day". - (Act V, Scene I).
Troilus and Cressida
"The common curse of mankind,
- folly and ignorance". - (Act II, Scene III).
Coriolanus
"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends". - (Act II, Scene I).
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