 | 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. |
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Act V, Scene V
agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty face from day to day.
O that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end
And then the end is known.
Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?
And shall I couple Hell?
Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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