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William Shakespeare

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And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.


— William Shakespeare


#change

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - (Act III, scene I).


— William Shakespeare


#equality #equality

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit


— William Shakespeare


#love

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.


— William Shakespeare


#art

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.


— William Shakespeare


#poetry #villain #life

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.


— William Shakespeare


#devil

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.


— William Shakespeare


#love

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.


— William Shakespeare


#music

Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.


— William Shakespeare


#shakespeare #adversity

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.


— William Shakespeare


#insignificance #sports






About William Shakespeare

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Did you know about William Shakespeare?

According to Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro in Julius Caesar "the various strands of politics character inwardness contemporary events even Shakespeare's own reflections on the act of writing began to infuse each other". In 1598 the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy. Many of his plays were publiWilliam Shakespeared in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime.

In the 20th century his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.

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