Comments on: Christmas in Shakespeare? Astound Us With Your Memory, English Majors http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/christmas-in-shakespeare-astound-us-with-your-memory-english-majors/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/christmas-in-shakespeare-astound-us-with-your-memory-english-majors/#comment-7044 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:36:57 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=4808#comment-7044 Wow, you’re good! I was thinking of your third choice (from “Hamlet”), seven lines from that scene that I’ll quote tomorrow.

I wasn’t sure anybody would guess the passage because it doesn’t specifically use the word “Christmas” (and has “saviour’s birth” instead), so it would require a good memory or very creative searching :) .

I love that you mentioned the other quotes, too, because some people might prefer them to the “Hamlet” quote for greeting cards. Thanks a a million.
Jan

]]> By: su2lee http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/christmas-in-shakespeare-astound-us-with-your-memory-english-majors/#comment-7043 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:11:29 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=4808#comment-7043 hi janice – was it this one from love’s labour’s lost? have to confess i couldn’t remember the play – and googled for it :(

at christmas i no more desire a rose
than wish a snow in may’s new-fangled mirth
but like of each thing that in season grows..

or were u thinking of heigh ho the holly from as you like it?

in hamlet act 1 scene 1 – marcellus after he sees the ghost:

some say that never ‘gainst that season comes
wherein our saviour’s birth is celebrated….
… so hallowed and so gracious is the time..

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