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
. . . I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead.
If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.
And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
And then it started like a guilty thingUpon a fearful summons.
The sea all water, yet receives rain still,And in abundance addeth to his store,So thou being rich in will add to thy willOne will of mine to make thy large will more.
But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered
These high wild hills and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make them wearisome;But yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!O that I were a glove upon that hand,That I might touch that cheek!
Show me the steep and thorny way. . . .
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity
May his pernicious soulRot half a grain a day!