Shakespeare Posters
A quotation for every location
Some suggestions for where to place the posters – some have obvious locations, others could go anywhere.
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exit doors
staffroom
front of the English classrooms (or in any classroom that takes your
fancy)
the music room
the canteen
library/ICT
careers
inside the staffroom door
anywhere that management reside
music room
inside the staffroom door
at the front of classrooms
inside the staffroom door
science corridor
drama classroom/hall
library/finance office
reception – by the signing in book
languages corridor
exit doors
art department (or, in our Tech and Arts college, in the Technology
corridors J)
canteen
citizenship coordinator’s door
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music room/any classroom
cookery room/canteen
reception area
reception area
PE/textiles (will they know what a girdle is?)
ICT room
Girls’ toilets
Head’s door (if you’re feeling brave!)
drama/hall
English rooms
History
English/languages
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Exit, pursued
by a bear.
The Winter’s Tale
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’tis not enough to
help the feeble up,
But to support him
after.
Timon of Athens
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You blocks, you
stones, you worse
than senseless
things!
Julius Caesar
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I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my
lips, let no dog
bark.
The Merchant of Venice
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If music be the
food of love,
play on.
Twelfth Night
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I care not what, so
it be wholesome
food.
The Taming of the Shrew
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I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,
all saws of books, all forms, all
pressures past,
that youth and observation copied
there …
and thy commandment all alone shall
live within the book and volume of my
brain.
Hamlet
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We are such stuff
as dreams are
made on.
The Tempest
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Blow, wind! Come,
wrack! At least we'll
die with
harness on our back!
Macbeth
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Some are born great,
some achieve
greatness, some have
greatness thrust upon
them.
Twelfth Night
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Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight
and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling
instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime
voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again.
The Tempest
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That way
madness lies.
King Lear
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Hear me with
patience but to
speak a word.
Romeo and Juliet
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Once more unto
the breach, dear
friends ...
Henry V
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Throw physic to
the dogs; I'll
none of it.
Macbeth
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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and
women merely
players.
As You Like It
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Neither a
borrower nor a
lender be.
Hamlet
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Better to be three
hours too soon
than a minute too
late.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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For my part, it
was Greek to
me.
Julius Caesar
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Parting is
such sweet
sorrow ...
Romeo and Juliet
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O, had I but
followed the
arts!
Twelfth Night
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There is nothing
either good or bad
but thinking makes
it so.
Hamlet
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Have more than thou
showest,
Speak less than thou
knowest,
Lend less than thou owest.
King Lear
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How sharper than a
serpent’s tooth it is
to have a thankless
child.
King Lear
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In time the
savage bull doth
bear the yoke.
Much Ado About Nothing
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Woe to the land
that’s governed
by a child!
Richard III
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Dost thou think,
because thou art
virtuous, there shall be
no more cakes and ale?
Twelfth Night
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Leave thy vain
bibble-babble.
Twelfth Night
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O heaven! Were man
But constant, he were
perfect.
Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Sweep on, you fat
and greasy
citizens.
As You Like It
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O how full of briers
is this working-day
world!
As You Like It
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Every good servant
does not all
commands.
Cymbeline
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I thank you for your
voices, thank you,
Your most sweet
voices.
Cymbeline
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Come, give us a
taste of your
quality.
Hamlet
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Away, you scullion! you
rampallion! you fustilarian!
I’ll tickle your catastrophe.
Henry IV, Part 2
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I am subtle,
false and
treacherous.
Richard III
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Round about the cauldron
go;
In the poisoned entrails
throw.
Macbeth
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By the pricking of my
thumbs,
Something wicked this way
comes.
Macbeth
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...the whining schoolboy,
with his satchel
And shining morning face,
creeping like a snail
Unwillingly to school
As You Like It
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I’ll put a girdle
round about the
earth in forty
minutes.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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A horse, a horse!
My kingdom for a
horse!
Richard III
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What’s in a name? That
which we call a rose
By any other name
would smell as sweet
Romeo and Juliet
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But screw your
courage to the
sticking place,
And we’ll not fail.
Macbeth
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He uses his folly like a
stalking-horse, and
under the presentation
of that he shoots his wit.
As You Like It
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There’s magic in
the web of IT
Othello
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Out, damned
spot!
Macbeth
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He thinks too
much. Such men
are dangerous.
Julius Caesar
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O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s
strength; but it is
tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
Measure for Measure
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Civil dissention is a
viperous worm
That gnaws the bowels
of the commonwealth.
Henry VI, Part 1
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Uneasy lies the
head that
wears a crown.
Henry IV, Part 2
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Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor
player
That struts and frets his hour upon
the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth
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I say there is no darkness
but ignorance, in which
thou art more puzzled
than the Egyptians in
their fog.
Twelfth Night
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They have a
plentiful lack
of wit.
Hamlet
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To be a well favoured
man is the gift of
fortune; but to write
and read comes by
nature.
Much Ado About Nothing
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There is a
history in all
men’s lives.
Henry IV, Part 2
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A rhapsody of
words ...
Hamlet
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He draweth out the
thread of his
verbosity finer than
the staple of his
argument.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Men of few
words are the
best men.
Henry V
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An honest tale
speeds best being
plainly told.
Richard III
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Where words are scarce,
they are seldom spent in
vain
For they breathe truth that
breathe their words in
pain.
Richard II
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Four of his five wits
went halting off, and
now is the whole man
governed with one.
Much Ado About Nothing
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What a piece of work is a man!
how noble in reason! how infinite
in faculty! in form and moving
how express and admirable! in
action how like an angel! in
apprehension how like a god! the
paragon of animals!
Hamlet
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Lord, what
fools these
mortals be!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never
shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his
height be taken.
Sonnet 116
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To be, or not to be: that is the
question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to
suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of
troubles,
And by opposing end them.
Hamlet
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