William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 April 1564
For you and I are past our dancing days.
My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces. And all the helpless souls within her drowned. All save one. A lady. Whose soul is greater than the ocean, and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace. Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story. For she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be Viola.
As good luck would have it.
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap
Lovers ever run before the clock
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes
Men's vows are women's traitors
Love hath made thee a tame snake
Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love
There's beggary in love that can be reckoned
He says, he loves my daughter; I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon Upon the water, as he'll stand and read, As 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain, I think, there is not half a kiss to choose, Who loves another best.
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.