Question re: "poor players who strut and fret our hour upon the stage"

[~~seadancer~~]

From exactly which piece of literature do the following words come from?
"poor players who strut and fret our hour upon the stage"
Can you please give me a link to the full quote online with full
attribution? Thanks.
---Sea

[Harry]

Post by ~~seadancer~~
From exactly which piece of literature do the following words come from?
"poor players who strut and fret our hour upon the stage"
Can you please give me a link to the full quote online with full
attribution? Thanks.
---Sea

Macbeth, scene 5, William Shakespeare:

MACBETH:
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.(20)
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!(25)
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.(30)

[~~seadancer~~]

Post by Harry

Post by ~~seadancer~~
From exactly which piece of literature do the following words come from?
"poor players who strut and fret our hour upon the stage"
Can you please give me a link to the full quote online with full
attribution? Thanks.
---Sea

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.(20)
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!(25)
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.(30)

Thank you very much, Harry.
After I read your reply, I searched and found the quote at:
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/tomorrow-tomorrow-tomorrow
Now I realize that the reason I couldn't find it originally is that I
didn't have the exact wording.
---Sea
ObQ:
"When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder
That such trivial people should muse and thunder
In such lovely language."
-D. H. Lawrence
FROM:
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-quotes-about.htm

[SteveMR200]

Post by ~~seadancer~~

Post by ~~seadancer~~
From exactly which piece of literature do the following words come from?
"poor players who strut and fret our hour upon the stage"

Can you please give me a link to the full quote online with full
attribution? Thanks.
---Sea
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.(30)

The "strut and fret" phrase from Shakespeare's
Macbeth was also alluded to in Phoebe Snow's
"Harpo's Blues" jazz hit:

I wish I was a soft refrain,
When the lights were out I'd play and be your friend;
I'd strut and fret my hour upon the stage,
The hour is up, I have to run and hide my rage
--Phoebe Snow (1952-2011).
_Harpo's Blues_ [1973] (song)

Click on the following link to listen to Harpo's Blues on You Tube

--
Steve

[~~seadancer~~]

Post by SteveMR200

Post by ~~seadancer~~

Post by ~~seadancer~~
From exactly which piece of literature do the following words come from?
"poor players who strut and fret our hour upon the stage"

Can you please give me a link to the full quote online with full
attribution? Thanks.
---Sea
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.(30)

The "strut and fret" phrase from Shakespeare's
Macbeth was also alluded to in Phoebe Snow's
I wish I was a soft refrain,
When the lights were out I'd play and be your friend;
I'd strut and fret my hour upon the stage,
The hour is up, I have to run and hide my rage
--Phoebe Snow (1952-2011).
_Harpo's Blues_ [1973] (song)
Click on the following link to listen to Harpo's Blues on You Tube
http://youtu.be/-Y6TdeHq2Ms
Steve

Thanks, Steve. Good song. The lyrics are here:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/harpos-blues-lyrics-phoebe-snow.html
Excerpt:
"I strut and fret my hour upon the stage
The hour is up
I have to run and hide my rage"

There's also this book: <g>
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/struts-and-frets-jon-skovron/1100698256
http://boingboing.net/2009/11/15/struts-frets-an-indi.html
A clever play on the words.
---Sea
ObQuote:
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of
a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to
the circumstances and the time in which it is used."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes [posted by Dave Kifer at aq 2/24/10]

[SteveMR200]

Post by SteveMR200

Post by ~~seadancer~~

Post by ~~seadancer~~
From exactly which piece of literature do the following words come from?
"poor players who strut and fret our hour upon the stage"

Can you please give me a link to the full quote online with full
attribution? Thanks.
---Sea
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.(30)

The "strut and fret" phrase from Shakespeare's
Macbeth was also alluded to in Phoebe Snow's
I wish I was a soft refrain,
When the lights were out I'd play and be your friend;
I'd strut and fret my hour upon the stage,
The hour is up, I have to run and hide my rage
--Phoebe Snow (1952-2011).
_Harpo's Blues_ [1973] (song)

Storytellers frequently refer to familiar events and
places, to persons in other fictional works or in
the Primary World, or to ideas or phrases found in
classic texts such as Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle,
the Bible. Sometimes these are not flagged, and as
readers we are supposed to know what the allusion
means.

Recall, for example, Holden Caulfield's reference
to "all that David Copperfield kind of crap" in
_The Catcher in the Rye_ or Matthew Arnold's allusion
to Sophocles in "Dover Beach."

There is really nothing short of avid reading and a
pretty good memory that will prepare you for these
allusions. Of course, the Christian who reads the
Bible regularly will be in much better shape to read
English literature of the past few centuries than a
person whose knowledge of the Bible is severely limited.

_Paradise Lost_ and _The Divine Comedy_ yield their
shape and meaning more readily to a narrowly read
Christian than to a broadly read secular humanist.
On the other hand, a reader who has absorbed Greek
and Roman mythology as well as the Bible will be in
even better shape.

For those who wish to follow the leads that
allusions provide, I suggest a King James Version
of the Bible, a small concordance such as _Cruden's
Concordance to the Holy Bible_, and a guide to Greek
and Roman mythology such as _Bulfinch's Mythology_
or Edith Hamilton's _Mythology_.
--James W. Sire (1933- )
_How To Read Slowly_ [1978],
"The Fierce Pull of Blood: Reading Fiction"

--
Steve

[ala]

Post by SteveMR200
Storytellers frequently refer to familiar events and
places, to persons in other fictional works or in
the Primary World, or to ideas or phrases found in
classic texts such as Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle,
the Bible. Sometimes these are not flagged, and as
readers we are supposed to know what the allusion
means.
Recall, for example, Holden Caulfield's reference
to "all that David Copperfield kind of crap" in
_The Catcher in the Rye_ or Matthew Arnold's allusion
to Sophocles in "Dover Beach."
There is really nothing short of avid reading and a
pretty good memory that will prepare you for these
allusions. Of course, the Christian who reads the
Bible regularly will be in much better shape to read
English literature of the past few centuries than a
person whose knowledge of the Bible is severely limited.
_Paradise Lost_ and _The Divine Comedy_ yield their
shape and meaning more readily to a narrowly read
Christian than to a broadly read secular humanist.
On the other hand, a reader who has absorbed Greek
and Roman mythology as well as the Bible will be in
even better shape.
For those who wish to follow the leads that
allusions provide, I suggest a King James Version
of the Bible, a small concordance such as _Cruden's
Concordance to the Holy Bible_, and a guide to Greek
and Roman mythology such as _Bulfinch's Mythology_
or Edith Hamilton's _Mythology_.
--James W. Sire (1933- )
_How To Read Slowly_ [1978],
"The Fierce Pull of Blood: Reading Fiction"

theatrics and religion

"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my
presidential campaign . I am disappointed that it came to this point that we
had to make this decision."--herman cain

[SteveMR200]

Post by ala
"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am
suspending my presidential campaign . I am disappointed that
it came to this point that we had to make this decision."
--herman cain

There is a potential hero in every man--and a
potential skunk.
--Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
_Conformed To His Image_ [1950]

--
Steve