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William Shakespeare

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Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?


— William Shakespeare


#honesty #beauty

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.


— William Shakespeare


#life

Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.


— William Shakespeare


#quarrel #romeo-and-juliet #humor

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.


— William Shakespeare


#beauty #beauty-in-literature #beauty

For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.


— William Shakespeare


#humor

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.


— William Shakespeare


#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.


— William Shakespeare


#greed #money #murder #poison #men

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.


— William Shakespeare


#love

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know;


— William Shakespeare


#men

O, what men dare do!


— William Shakespeare


#men






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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