I did a history and a tragedy, so now I have to do a comedy.

From As You Like It:

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

My sane ashen melancholy gentleman harshly says an existential narrative wellspring and, with a serene rhythm, anticipates the modern stage-based development ideas.

I came up with another anagram…

From Macbeth:

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
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!

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

O, a recently-widowed moody Scottish royal tyrant floated from merely muddled to purely clearheaded to observe how poor mortals (us) try to woo fate and start to grasp that life’s a bitch and then you die.

Okay, let’s make this a regular feature.

Taking inspiration from the amazing anagram of the speech from Hamlet, I decided to try my own hand at anagramming Shakespeare. Here is my first attempt, taken from the first lines of King Richard III:

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:

The too-sinful Gloucester (later – ouch! – dubbed Richard III), by odious puns on nouns, unkindly compares the momentous War of the Roses end to the foul-mood weather.

That was fun! Maybe I’ll make this a regular feature.

Via the Shakespeare Geek, we find an “amazing anagram” (which I have to say I never bothered to check):

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.

Becomes:

In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

That anagram has inspired this week’s Conundrum!

What well-known Shakespearean phrases can be anagramed from the following?

1. Tall Worthless Adage
2. Icky Backwashes Uncrowned Lord
3. Haberdasher Elf Slots Low Motto
4. Embrace Incoherent Hoot
5. Many Mourned Scorn Snifter

By the way, ShakespeareTeacher.com anagrams out to Search Peacemaker Ethos. I think that’s appropriate.

UPDATE: Anagram 2 solved by Annalisa. See comments for all answers.