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Le Jour Des Rois

William Shakespeare

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Le Jour Des Rois

William Shakespeare

British Literature, Classics of Literature, Humour, Plays/Films/Dramas

Translated by François Guizot

What begins as a ship's wreck becomes something far more treacherous: the dismantling of every identity we take for granted. Viola washes up in the dukedom of Illyria, assumes her brother has drowned, and does the only logical thing a woman in her position can do, disguise herself as a man named Cesario and go to work for the Duke who pines for a widow who won't have him. But the math of desire is never simple. The Duke sends Cesario to court Olivia. Olivia, mourning her dead brother, falls not for the Duke but for his messenger, the young man who is, of course, a woman. And meanwhile, in the corridors of Olivia's household, a puritanical steward named Malvolio dreams of marrying up, while his betters drink, scheme, and mock. Shakespeare builds his comedy on a delicious paradox: the more precisely we perform a role, the more visible our deepest self becomes. The language spins between aching lyricism and brutal farce, sometimes in the same scene. What emerges is not just a joke about mistaken identity, but a genuine reckoning with how love makes fools of us all, and how the masks we wear to survive might be the most honest things about us.

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“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.””

— William Shakespeare

“If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.That strain again! it had a dying fall:O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,That breathes upon a bank of violets,Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,That, notwithstanding thy capacityReceiveth as the sea, nought enters there,Of what validity and pitch soe'er,But falls into abatement and low price,Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancyThat it alone is high fantastical.””

— William Shakespeare

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.””

— William Shakespeare

“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.””

— William Shakespeare

“Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.””

— William Shakespeare

“a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief””

— William Shakespeare

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.””

— William Shakespeare

“I say, there is no darknessbut ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled thanthe Egyptians in their fog.””

— William Shakespeare

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I.It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.””

— William Shakespeare

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