 | BiographyType: Playwright, Poet, Actor Born: Baptised 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown) Died: 23 April 1616 William Shakespeare, often called the English national poet, is widely considered the greatest dramatist of all time. William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. From roughly 1594 onward he was an important member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men company of theatrical players. Written records give little indication of the way in which Shakespeare’s professional life molded his artistry. All that can be deduced is that over the course of 20 years, Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict. |
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
...speak to me as to thy thinking
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words...
The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
...Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.
I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.
Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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