As You Like It
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” - Jaques (Act 2, Scene 7)
The Two “Gentlemen” of Verona
“At first I did adore a twinkling star, But now I worship a celestial sun” - Proteus (Act 2, Scene 6)
The Tempest - Starring Kenneth Branagh
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep” - Prospero (Act 4, Scene 1)
Much Ado About Nothing
“Therein do men from children nothing differ.” - Antonio (Act 5, Scene 1)
Romeo & Juliet
“Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.” - Friar Lawrence (Act 2, Scene 3)
Antony & Cleopatra
“But you gods will give us some faults to make us men.” - Agrippa (Act 5, Scene 1)
Merry Wives of Windsor
“O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast” - Falstaff (Act 5, Scene 5)
Richard II
“Let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings.” -Richard II (Act 3, Scene 2)
One Knight Only: Sir Ian McKellen
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.” -Macbeth (Act V, Scene V)
All’s Well That Ends Well
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” -Dumaine (Act IV, Scene III)
Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear
“The weight of this sad time we must obey; Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.” -Edgar (Act V, Scene III)
The Comedy of Errors
“Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? Sleeping or waking? Mad or well-advised?” -Antipholus (Act II, Scene II)