Jennifer Grantham

"Dame Margaret kneel'd to me And on my head did set the diadem." Henry VI Part II ~ Act 1 Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #DowntonAbbey

"Was this before the king return'd?" King Lear ~ Act 4 Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday #LOTR

"At the parting all the church did echo. And I, seeing this, came thence for very shame, And after me, I know, the rout is coming, Such a mad marriage never was before." The Taming of the Shrew ~ Act 3 Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #JaneEyre

"Youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth; Turn melancholy forth to funerals; The pale companion is not for our pomp." A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Act 1 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday {The Phantom of the Opera}

"When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights." -Sonnet 106 #ShakespeareSunday {Romeo + Juliet, 1996}

"I keep her as a vessel of the law's fury; and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted and heart-burning heat of duty." Love's Labour's Lost ~ Act 1 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire

"Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain. He was Then a crescent of note, expected to prove so worthy." Cymbeline ~ Act 1 Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday #BlackSails

"What is he whose grief Bears such an emphasis? Whose phrase of sorrow Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers?" Hamlet ~ Act 5 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #LOTR

"In this forest let us do those ends That here were well begun and well begot." As You Like It ~ Act 5 Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday #Hamnet

"Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead." A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Act 5 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire

"What, doth she swoon? Use means for her recovery." Henry VI Part III ~ Act 5 Scene 5 #ShakespeareSunday #Poldark

"Gather'd the enchanted herbs That did renew." The Merchant of Venice ~ Act 5 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #LOTR

"You would be another Penelope. Yet they say all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths." Coriolanus ~ Act 1 Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday #BlackSails

"There in person; with him, The mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, Love's invisible soul." Troilus and Cressida ~ Act 3 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire

"Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. I pray thee stay with us." Hamlet ~ Act 1 Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #Hamnet

"Come, where is this young gallant that is so desirous to lie with his mother earth?" As You Like It ~ Act 1 Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #BrightStar

"She looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd in dew." The Taming of the Shrew ~ Act 2 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday {North & South}

"I am clothed in steel; And spite of all the rapture of the sea, This jewel holds his building on my arm: Unto thy value I will mount myself." Pericles ~ Act 2 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday {Titanic}

"You, mistress, all this coil is long of you: Nay, go not back." A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Act 3 Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #Poldark

"Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." The Merchant of Venice ~ Act 5 Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #InterviewWithTheVampire