Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot, And place your hands below your husband’s foot: In token of which duty, if he please, My hand is ready, may it do him ease!” #theshrew2026 020
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat.” #theshrew2026 011
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“Sir, here’s the door, this is Lucentio’s house, My father bears more toward the market-place; Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.” #theshrew2026 041
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse; with a linen stock on one leg, and a kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red a blue list; an old hat, and The humour of forty fancies pricked in’t for a feather, a monster, a very monster in apparel” (III, 3) #theshrew2026 020
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“After an hour the poet left the Cénacle, tortured by his conscience which was crying out to him: ‘You’ll be a journalist!’ as the witch cries out to Macbeth: ‘Thou shalt be king hereafter.’ #balzactogether 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Why, this was moulded on a porringer; A velvet dish;—fie, fie! ‘t is lewd and filthy; Why, ‘t is a cockle, or a walnut-shell, A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby’s cap; Away with it, come, let me have a bigger.” #theshrew2026 030
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments” #theshrew2026 030
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave” #theshrew2026 020
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“I resisted all the way: a new thing for me…” #brontefest 181
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“O, sir, I do; and will repute you ever The patron of my life and liberty.” #theshrew2026 030
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here sir! You loggerheaded and unpolish’d grooms! What? no attendance? no regard? no duty? Where is the foolish knave I sent before?” #theshrew2026 130
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Welcome, you;—how now, you;—what, you;—fellow, you;—and thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce companions, is all ready, and all things neat?” #theshrew2026 031
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“now, were not I a little pot, and soon hot, my very lips might freeze to my teeth, my tongue to the roof of my mouth, my heart in my belly, ere I should come by a fire to thaw me” #theshrew2026 030
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Grumio, Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves; Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man: Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate; I’ll buckler thee against a million.” #theshrew2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Nay, by Saint Jamy, I hold you a penny, A horse and a man is more than one, and yet not many.” #theshrew2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down: Take you your instrument, play you the whiles; His lecture will be done ere you have tun’d.” #theshrew2026 051
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Why, then the maid is mine from all the world, By your firm promise; Gremio is outvied.” #theshrew2026 030
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Thou must be married to no man but me; For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Comfortable, as other household Kates.” #theshrew2026 041
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“The thing we give our lives for, the subject we rack our brains over and wrestle with for nights on end, the race we run across the fields of thought, the monument we build with our heart’s blood: editors regard all that as a good or a bad piece of business.” #balzactogether 051
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“Poetry is like the sun: it makes the eternal forests grow but also engenders gnats, midges and mosquitoes…There’s nothing good that doesn’t bring something bad in its wake.” Here’s to poetry! #balzactogether 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“Why, how now, dame! whence grows this insolence? Bianca, stand aside;—poor girl! she weeps:— Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her . For shame, thou hilding of a devilish spirit, Why dost thou wrong her that did ne’er wrong thee? When did she cross thee with a bitter word?” #theshrew2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Sir, I shall not be slack: in sign whereof, Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, And quaff carouses to our mistress’ health; And do as adversaries do in law,— Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.” #theshrew2026 051
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Help, masters, help! my master is mad.” #theshrew2026 050
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Glad that you thus continue your resolve, To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. Only, good master, while we do admire This virtue, and this moral discipline, Let’s be no stoics, nor no stocks, I pray” #theshrew2026 070
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sly: “Madam wife, they say I have dream’d, And slept above some fifteen year or more.” Page: “Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me; Being all this time abandon’d from you bed.” #theshrew2026 030
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My trusted college Penguin…when a paperback was $2.25. 😱 292
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“Well, while I live, I’ll fear no other thing So sore, as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.” #themerchant2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“I would out-night you, did no body come; But, hark, I hear the footing of a man.” #themerchant2026 030
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Inquire the Jew’s house out, give him this deed, And let him sign it; we’ll away to-night” #themerchant2026 031
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“I pray you give me leave to go from hence: I am not well; send the deed after me, And I will sign it.” #themerchant2026 140
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.” #themerchant2026 071
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“But mercy is above the sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the heart of kings, It is an attribute to God himself” #themerchant2026 041
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“thou art come to answer A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch Incapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy.” #themerchant2026 041
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Thou call’dst me dog, before thou hadst a cause; But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs” #themerchant2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Saw this in Princeton today. Highly recommend if it comes to a theatre near you. And yes, Shylock’s dialogue was part of his performance. #themerchant2026 261
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“Thou stick’st a dagger in me: —I shall never see my gold again. Fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats!” #themerchant2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“a very dangerous flat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip report, be an honest woman of her word.” #themerchant2026 041
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“A day in April never came so sweet, To show how costly summer was at hand. As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.” #themerchant2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“Why, all the boys in Venice follow him Crying,—his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.” #themerchant2026 041
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.” #themerchant2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour, For lovers ever run before the clock.” #themerchant2026 051
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“Do as I bid you, shut doors after you: Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.” #themerchant2026 152
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“Give him this letter; do it secretly, And so farewell; I would not have my father See me in talk with thee.” #themerchant2026 040
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 20/08/2026“No master, sir, but a poor man’s son: his father, though I say it, is an honest exceeding poor man, and, God, be thanked, well to live.” #themerchant2026 030
Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“Good fortune, then! To make me bless’d, or cursed’st among men.” #themerchant2026 030
