memorize shakespeare

I’m memorizing a passage from the Merchant of Venice. It’s near the end of the play, in a scene with Lorenzo and Jessica.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.

I’ve still got most of the “To Be or Not To Be” speech and all of the “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” speech, as well as the parting words of that guy to his son. You know. That one.

Being able to pump out Hamlet’s “To Be” soliloquy is always a crowd-pleaser, though I’ve felt more accomplished as a human being after having memorized all of Titus Andronicus’ “Sorrows to the Stones” bit.

Don’t bother with Romeo and Juliet unless you like looking like a sap.

i was in the merchant of venice. i memorized too much shakespeare!!

i did this a few months ago for a school project. I had to learn a soliliquiy called “now is the winter of our discontent. It helped to make up a rythym that gets into your head. I recorded me saying it in that rythym and listened to it over and over again while reciting it myself. and in the end, I GOT AN A!!!

have got the part of portia in Merchant of Venice so this will soon be ticked off