William Shakespeare
People note exceptional verbal wit, psychological depth, and emotional range of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who included such historical works as
Richard II
, comedies like
Much Ado about Nothing
, and such tragedies as
Hamlet
,
Othello
, and
King Lear
and also composed 154 sonnets before people published posthumously
First Folio
, which collected and contained edition of 36 plays in 1623.
He and Anne Hathaway, his wife, married in 1582.
Forest of Arden, a formerly very extensive wooded area, north of Stratford-upon-Avon of central England provided the setting for
As You Like It
of Shakespeare.
People widely regard William Shakespeare (baptized 26 April 1564) as the greatest writer in the language and the pre-eminent dramatist of the world. They often call him simply the national "bard of Avon." Surviving writings consist of 38 dramas, two long narratives, and several other books. People translate them into every major living language and performed them most often.
Anne bore him Susanna Shakespeare, and twins Hamnet Shakespeare and Judith Shakespeare. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the company, later known as the King's Men.
Shakespeare wrote throughout the span of his life. He started writing in 1589 and afterward averaged 1.5 dramas a year. From 1590, Shakespeare produced most of his known literature. He early mainly raised genres to the peak of sophistication and artistry before 1601. Next, he wrote mainly Macbeth and similar dramas, considered some of the finest examples in the language, until 1608. In his last phase, he wrote also known romances and collaborated until 1613.
He apparently retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later on day of Saint George, his 52nd birthday. Few records of private life of Shakespeare survive with considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether he wrote all attributed literature.
People inscribed many books of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues issued all but two now recognized dramas of Shakespeare. Shakespeare, the great master of language and literature authentically wrote not all that people attribute.
People respected Shakespeare in his own day, but his reputation rose to its present heights not until the nineteenth century. The romantics in particular acclaimed genius of Shakespeare, and the Victorians hero-worshiped him with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry." In the 20th century, new movements in scholarship and performance repeatedly adopted and rediscovered his dramas. People consistently perform and reinterpret his highly popular dramas today in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.
“And then he drew a dial from his poke,And looking with lack-lustre eye,Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags:'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.”
“So farewell to the little good you bear meFarewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!”
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale,And every tale condemns me for a villain.Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!”
“Short summers lightly have a forward spring.”
“Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass,That I may see my shadow as I pass.”
“Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.”
“I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks;I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy.I can add colors to the chameleon,Change shapes with Proteus for advantagesAnd set the murderous Machiavel to school.Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.”
“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face for all occasions”
“in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England:Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'dAnd left it to his son imperial lord.Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd Kingof France and England did this King succeed;Whose state so many of had the managing,That they lost France and made his England bleed.”
“The devil take order! I'll to the throng:Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”
“Life's an Unceartian Voyage”
“What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”
“If your mind dislike anything obey it”
“Screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail.”
“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?”
“Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.”
“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)”
“And as he plucked his cursed steel away,Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it,As rushing out of doors, to be resolvedIf Brutus unkindly knocked or no.”
“For trust not him that hath once broken faith”
“I hate ingratitude more in a manthan lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,or any taint of vice whose strong corruptioninhabits our frail blood".”
“Be the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it”
“Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear”
“O' what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!”
“A mágoa altera as estações e as horas de repouso, fazendo da noite dia e do dia noite.”
“Ai! Em teus olhos há maior perigo do que em vinte punhais dos teus parentes. Olha-me com doçura, e é quanto basta para me deixar invulnerável ao ódio deles.”
“Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze, But that this folly doubts it.”
“Romeu, Romeu! Ah! Porque és tu Romeu? Renega o pai, despoja-te do nome; ou então, se não quiseres juro ao menos que amor me tens, porque uma Capuleto deixarei de ser logo.”
“If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.”
“Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.”
“I can bear a charmed life”
“Our wills and fates do so contrary run, that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.”
“So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.”
“And when I love thee not, chaos is come again.”
“He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.”
“Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.”
“We do it wrong, being so majestical,To offer it the show of violence,For it is as the air, invulnerable,And our vain blows malicious mockery.”
“Well roared, lion.”
“Ho! now you strike like the blind man;t'was the boy that stole your meat,and you'll beat the post.”
“Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back:Tells Harry that the King doth offer him Katherine his daughter;and with her to dowry some petty and unprofitable dukedoms:The offer likes not;”
“Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance:No king of England, if not king of France”
“Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray.God, and not we, hath safely fought to day.”
“the time of life is short;To spend that shortness basely were too long.”
“every thing in your hand if you bi laveon God”
“love thou the rose: yet leave it on its stem”
“I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping andassuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, mySaviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting.”
“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”
“and the rest is silence”
“Discharge my followers; let them hence away,From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.”
“My dear dear lord,The purest treasure mortal times affordIs spotless reputation: that away,Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chestIs a bold spirit in a loyal breast.Mine honour is my life; both grow in one:Take honour from me, and my life is done:Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try;In that I live and for that will I die.”
“Not all the water in the rough rude seaCan wash the balm from an anointed King;”